Prevalence of coronary artery calcification in patients undergoing assessment for orthotopic liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1725-1731

  McAvoy, Norma C ^a   Kochar, Narendra ^a   McKillop, Graham ^a   Newby, David E ^a   Hayes, Peter C ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCINOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58249083544     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21540     Document Type: Article

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