Rapid fall in sympathetic nerve hyperactivity in patients with heart failure after cardiac transplantation

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-26

  Rundqvist, Bengt ^a   Casale, Roberto ^b   Bergmann Sverrisdottir, Yrsa ^a,b   Friberg, Peter ^a   Mortara, Andrea ^c   Elam, Mikael ^a,b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Sci Institute of Care and Research   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Cyclosporine; Heart failure; Microneurography; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INNERVATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

CYCLOSPORINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 0031087470     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-9164(97)90005-1     Document Type: Article

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