Intravascular ultrasound assessment of longitudinal plaque distribution patterns in patients with angiographically silent coronary artery disease after heart transplantation

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 349-356

  Bocksch, Wolfgang ^a   Wellnhofer, Ernst ^b   Klimek, Waldemar ^b   Schartl, Michael ^b   Dreysse, Stefan ^b   Musci, Michele ^b   Hummel, Manfred ^b   Hetzer, Roland ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Heart transplantation; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0036873936     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200211000-00001     Document Type: Article

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