Changes in coronary arterial dimensions early after cardiac transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 700-705

  Fearon, William F ^a,b   Potena, Luciano ^a   Hirohata, Atsushi ^a   Sakurai, Ryota ^a   Yamasaki, Masao ^a   Luikart, Helen ^a   Lee, Julia ^a   Vana, Marcy L ^a   Cooke, John P ^a   Mocarski, Edward S ^a   Yeung, Alan C ^a   Valantine, Hannah A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Transplantation; Ultrasound; Vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; VESSEL; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CORONARY VESSELS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34147127557     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000256335.84363.9b     Document Type: Article

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