A prospective study of dobutamine stress echocardiography for the assessment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in pediatric heart transplant recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 570-576

  Dipchand, Anne I ^a   Bharat, Winston ^a   Manlhiot, Cedric ^a   Safi, Mina ^a   Lobach, Natalia E ^a   McCrindle, Brian W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Chronic rejection; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Heart transplant

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; STATIN; STEROID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 55949105481     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00861.x     Document Type: Article

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