Is the prognosis poorer in heart transplanted patients who develop a right bundle branch block?

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 207-214

  Osa, Ana ^a   Almenar, Luis ^a   Arnau, Miguel A ^a   Martínez Dolz, Luis ^a   Rueda, Joaquín ^a   Morillas, Pedro ^a   Palencia, Miguel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEFLAZACORT; OKT 3;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECIPIENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033977055     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(99)00122-9     Document Type: Article

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