Intravascular ultrasound correlates with coronary flow reserve and predicts the survival in angiographically normal cardiac transplant recipients

Cardiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-98

  Lee, Chii Ming ^a,b   Wu, Yen Wen ^a   Jui, Hsiang Yiang ^a   Yen, Ruoh Fang ^a   Tzen, Kai Yuan ^a   Chou, Nai Kuan ^a   Wang, Shoei Shen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Coronary flow reserve; Intravascular ultrasound; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 37849054599     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000105548     Document Type: Article

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