Detection of significant coronary artery stenosis with 64-slice computed tomography in heart transplant recipients: A comparative study with conventional coronary angiography

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-100

  von Ziegler, Franz ^a,b   Leber, Alexander W ^a   Becker, Alexander ^a   Kaczmarek, Ingo ^a   Schönermarck, Ulf ^a   Raps, Christine ^a   Tittus, Janine ^a   Überfuhr, Peter ^a   Becker, Christoph R ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Steinbeck, Gerhard ^a   Knez, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conventional coronary angiography; Heart transplantation; Multi slice computed tomography angiography; Transplant vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56949085750     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-008-9343-z     Document Type: Article

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