Accelerated transplant coronary artery disease and massive silent acute myocardial infarction in a heart transplant patient: A case report and brief review of literature

Angiology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 947-953

  Rossignol, Daniel A ^a   Kipreos, Barbara ^a   Akosah, Kwame ^a   Mohanty, Pramod K ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032727502     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331979905001110     Document Type: Article

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