Analysis of Cardiac Dimensions, Mass and Function in Heart Transplant Recipients Using 64-slice Multi-detector Computed Tomography

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 478-484

  Ferencik, Maros ^a   Gregory, Shawn A ^a   Butler, Javed ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a,b   Yeh, Robert W ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a   Inglessis, Ignacio ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a   Nieman, Koen ^a   McNulty, Iris A ^a   Healy, Josephine A ^a   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Semigran, Marc J ^a   Jang, Ik Kyung ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SIZE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247127374     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.01.041     Document Type: Article

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