Skin microvascular distensibility and structural microangiopathy in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and after heart transplantation

Microvascular Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-51

  Bønnelykke Sørensen, Vibeke ^a   Wroblewski, Henrik ^a   Galatius, Søren ^a   Nørgaard, Tove ^b   Haunsø, Stig ^a   Kastrup, Jens ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Peripheral microcirculation; Skin blood flow; Structural microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0344898573     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.1998.2113     Document Type: Article

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