Cause of atrioventricular block in patients after heart transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-142

  Cui, Guanggen ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon ^a   Margarian, Armen ^a   Sen, Luyi ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; PROCAINAMIDE; QUINIDINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037962305     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000071933.14397.43     Document Type: Article

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