The spatial pattern of coronary capillaries in patients with dilated, ischemic, or inflammatory cardiomyopathy

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 135-144

  Karch, Rudolf ^a   Neumann, Friederike ^a   Ullrich, Robert ^a   Neumüller, Josef ^a   Podesser, Bruno K ^a   Neumann, Martin ^b   Schreiner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capillaries; Cardiomyopathy; Computer modeling; Histopathology; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CAPILLARY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CAPILLARIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 19444377985     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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