Doppier echocardiography in cardiac transplant patients: allograft rejection and its relationship to diastolic function

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 526-531

  Boyd, Sheri Y N ^a,b   Mego, David M ^a   Khan, Nancy A ^a   Rubal, Bernard J ^a   Gilbert, Todd M ^a  

^a Brooke Army Medical Center ^*

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031159980     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)70006-3     Document Type: Article

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