Vascular remodelling after cardiac transplantation: A 3-year serial intravascular ultrasound study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1671-1677

  Li, Haiyan ^a,b   Tanaka, Koji ^a   Oeser, Brandy ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^a   Tobis, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Heart transplantation; Intravascular ultrasound; Remodelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 33745789822     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl097     Document Type: Article

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