Increase in atrial size in long-term survivors of heart transplant

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1043-1048

  Gudmundsson, G Steinar ^a   Smull, David L ^b   Pisani, Barbara A ^b   Bane, Christopher D ^b   Mendez, Jose C ^b   Mullen, G Martin ^b   Jacobs, William R ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART GRAFT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141752956     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00591-1     Document Type: Article

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