Pressure-wire guided balloon angioplasty in allograft coronary vasculopathy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1143-1146

  Casella, Gianni ^a   Rieber, Johannes ^a   Mudra, Harald ^a   Klauss, Volker ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032728828     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(99)00074-1     Document Type: Article

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