Effects of cardiac allograft vasculopathy on myocardial blood flow, vasodilatory capacity, and coronary vasomotion

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 600-606

  Kofoed, Klaus F ^c   Czernin, Johannes ^b   Johnson, Jay ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon ^c   Phelps, Michael E ^c   Laks, Hillel ^b   Schelbert, Heinrich R ^c  

^a Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

blood flow; tomography; transplantation; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0031048375     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.3.600     Document Type: Article

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