Giant Coronary Aneurysms in Heart Transplantation: an Unusual Presentation of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1367-1370

  Haddad, François ^a   Perez, Marco ^a   Fleischmann, Dominik ^a   Valantine, Hannah ^a   Hunt, Sharon A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; PRAVASTATIN; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33750621957     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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