Recognition of acute cardiac allograft rejection from serial integrated backscatter analyses in human orthotopic heart transplant recipients: Comparison with conventional echocardiography

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 140-150

  Angermann, Christiane E ^a,b   Nassau, Kirsten ^a   Stempfle, Hans Ulrich ^a   Krüger, Thomas M ^a   Drevvello, Ralph ^a   Junge, Reinhard ^a   Überfuhr, Peter ^b   Weiß, Max ^b   Theisen, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

echocardiography; rejection; tissue; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031022951     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.1.140     Document Type: Article

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