Longitudinal study of vascular remodeling in coronary arteries after heart transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 546-550

  Kobashigawa, Jon ^a   Wener, Lianne ^a   Johnson, Jay ^a   Currier, Jesse W ^a   Yeatman, Lawrence ^a   Cassem, Judith ^a   Tobis, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0034086162     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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