Chest Pain in Cardiac-Transplant Recipients: Evidence of Sensory Reinnervation after Cardiac Transplantation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 324, Issue 25, 1991, Pages 1791-1794

  Stark, Randall P ^a   McGinn, Andrew L ^a   Wilson, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; NORADRENALIN; TYRAMINE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CASE REPORT; CHEST PAIN; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NERVE REGENERATION; NOREPINEPHRINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TYRAMINE;

EID: 0026428634     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199106203242507     Document Type: Article

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