Predictors of exercise capacity and the impact of angiographic coronary artery disease in heart transplant recipients

American Heart Journal

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-54

  Gullestad, Lars ^a,c   Myers, Jonathan ^b   Edvardsen, Thor ^a   Kjekshus, John ^a   Geiran, Odd ^a   Simonsen, Svein ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c VESTRE VIKEN HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INDEX; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0346156033     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2003.07.013     Document Type: Article

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