Computerized heart allograft-recipient monitoring: A multicenter study

Transplant International

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 225-230

  Grasser, Barbara ^a   Iberer, Florian ^a,b   Schreier, Günter ^c   Kastner, Peter ^c   Schaffellner, Silvia ^a   Kniepeiss, Daniela ^a   Kleinert, Reinhold ^a   Mahaux, Veronique ^d   Demoulin, Jean Claude ^d   Nägele, Herbert ^e   Rödiger, Wilfried ^e   Laufer, Günther ^f   Grimm, Michael ^f   Zuckermann, Andreas ^f   Wasler, Andre ^a   Prenner, Günther ^a   Tscheliessnigg, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LKH   (Austria)

^c ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heart transplantation; Intramyocardial electrogram; Non invasive rejection monitoring; Rejection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0038316687     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2003.tb00292.x     Document Type: Article

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