Role of endomyocardial biopsy in the diagnosis of chronic rejection in human heart transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 426-431

  Pardo Mindan F J ^a   Panizo, A ^a   Lozano, M D ^a   Herreros, J ^a   Mejia S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic rejection; Endomyocardial biopsy; Graft atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLES; BIOPSY; CELL DIVISION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLAGEN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LAMININ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 2142667216     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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