Functional and morphological findings in heart transplant recipients with a normal coronary angiogram: An analysis by dobutamine stress echocardiography, intracoronary Doppler and intravascular ultrasound

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 391-398

  Spes, Christoph H ^a   Klauss, Volker ^a   Rieber, Johannes ^a   Schnaack, Susanne D ^a   Tammen, Andres R ^a   Überfuhr, Peter ^a   Reichart, Bruno ^a   Theisen, Karl ^a   Angermann, Christiane E ^a   Mudra, Harald ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DOBUTAMINE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADENOSINE; BIOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033064906     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(98)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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