Studies on structural changes of the carotid arteries and the heart in asymptomatic renal transplant recipients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 160-165

  Suwelack, Bahava ^a   Witta, Jan ^a   Hausberg, Martin ^a   Müller, Susanne ^a   Rahn, Karl Heinz ^a   Barenbrock, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

End stage renal failure; Intima media thickness; Kidney transplantation; Left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEVICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INTIMA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032944199     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.1.160     Document Type: Article

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