Non-invasive graft monitoring after heart transplantation: Rationale to reduce the number of endomyocardial biopsies

Transplant International

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages

  Grasser, B ^a   Iberer, F ^a,c   Schaffellner, S ^a   Kniepeiss, D ^a   Schreier, G ^b   Kastner, P ^b   Tscheliessnigg, K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c LKH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Graft monitoring after heart transplantation; Intramyocardial electrograms; Rejection after heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOPSY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 4244159675     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2000.tb02024.x     Document Type: Article

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4. Iberer F, Grasser B, Schreier G, Schaffellner S, Prenner G, Allmayer T, Wasler A, Petutschnigg B, Müller H, Kastner P, Schaldach M, Hutten H, Tscheliessnigg KH (1998) Introducing a new clinical method for noninvasive rejection monitoring after heart transplantation to clinical practice: analysis of paced intramyocardial electrograms. Transplant Proc 30: 895-899