Predictors of reduced coronary flow reserve in heart transplant recipients without angiographically significant coronary artery disease

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1477-1481

  Klauss, Volker ^a   Spes, Christoph H ^a   Rieber, Johannes ^a   Siebert, Uwe ^a   Werner, Frank ^a   Stempfle, Hans U ^a   Überfuhr, Peter ^a   Theisen, Karl ^a   Angermann, Christiane E ^a   Reichart, Bruno ^a   Mudra, Harald ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033610643     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199911270-00008     Document Type: Article

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