Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Real or a Normal Morphologic Variant?

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-173

  Houser, Stuart ^a   Muniappan, Ashok ^a   Allan, James ^a   Sachs, David ^a   Madsen, Joren ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 33846361363     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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