Importance of decreased heart rate in predicting transplant coronary artery disease

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 628-632

  Gullestad, Lars ^a   Ross, Heather ^a   Myers, Jonathan ^a   Hoang, Khanh ^a   Hunt, Sharon ^a   Stinson, Edward B ^a   Valantine, Hannah A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Heart rate; Heart transplant recipients

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0030665549     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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