Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Graft Restenosis

OK, now I swear yesterday, when I typed "graft restenosis" into the MeSH database, I got no results. Today, I typed it in, and I got one of the two relevant MeSH terms (Graft Occlusion, Vascular). Grr! Well, I've started this post anyway, so here goes.

I was asked to do a search for "coronary artery bypass graft re-stenosis". Here is my final search strategy:

"Coronary Artery Bypass"[MeSH]
AND
"Graft Occlusion, Vascular"[Mesh] OR "Coronary Restenosis"[Mesh]

plus some other stuff unique to this question. The point of posting this is that "Coronary Restenosis" is a synonym of "Graft Occlusion, Vascular", at least for the purposes of this search, but is not as readily found in the MeSH database.