Histological evidence of concomitant intramyocardial and epicardial vasculitis in necropsied heart allografts: A possible relationship with graft coronary arteriosclerosis

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1569-1576

  Higuchi, Maria De Lourdes ^a   Benvenuti, Luiz Alberto ^a   Demarchi, Lea Maria Macruz ^a   Libby, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASA VASORUM; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0032975920     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199906270-00011     Document Type: Article

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