Feasibility of in vivo intravascular ultrasound tissue characterization in the detection of early vascular transplant rejection

Circulation

Volumn 100, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 2127-2130

  Jeremias, Allen ^a   Kolz, Mathew L ^a   Ikonen, Tuija S ^a   Gummert, Jan F ^a   Oshima, Akio ^a   Hayase, Motoya ^a   Honda, Yasuhiro ^a   Komiyama, Nobuyuki ^a   Berry, Gerald J ^a   Morris, Randall E ^a   Yock, Paul G ^a   Fitzgerald, Peter J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Transplantation; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA GRAFT; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; GRAFT REJECTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 0033598759     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.100.21.2127     Document Type: Article

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