Repeated intravascular ultrasound imaging in cardiac transplant recipients does not accelerate transplant coronary artery disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1739-1743

  Ramasubbu, Kumudha ^a   Schoenhagen, Paul ^a   Balghith, Mohammed A ^a   Brechtken, Johannes ^a   Ziada, Khaled M ^a   Kapadia, Samir R ^a   Hobbs, Robert E ^a   Rincon, Gustavo ^a   Nissen, Steven E ^a   Tuzcu, E Murat ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT;

EID: 0038578311     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00339-5     Document Type: Article

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