Liver transplantation: Do you have the heart for it?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 520-522

  Lester, Steven J ^a   Hurst, R Todd ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ANEMIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART RATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EXERCISE TEST; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 33645554184     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20577     Document Type: Editorial

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