Do clinical diagnoses correlate with pathological diagnoses in cardiac transplant patients? The importance of endomyocardial biopsy

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Luk, Adriana ^a   Metawee, Mohammed ^a   Ahn, Eric ^a   Gustafsson, F ^a   Ross, Heather ^a   Butany, Jagdish ^a,b  

^a Division of Cardiology   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Endomyocardial biopsy; Heart transplant

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOCARDIUM; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63049138707     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(09)70484-2     Document Type: Article

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