Detection of High-grade Stenoses With Multislice Computed Tomography in Heart Transplant Patients

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 310-316

  Pichler, Philipp ^a   Loewe, Christian ^a   Roedler, Suzanne ^a   Syeda, Bonni ^a   Stadler, Alfred ^a   Aliabadi, Arezu ^a   Schukro, Christoph ^a   Wolf, Florian ^a   Zuckermann, Andreas ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Sochor, Heinz ^a   Glogar, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 40649093564     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.11.577     Document Type: Article

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