Surgical revascularization for cardiac allograft vasculopathy: Is it still an option?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1488-1492

  Bhama, Jay K ^a   Nguyen, Duc Q ^a   Scolieri, Sun ^a   Teuteberg, Jeffrey J ^a   Toyoda, Yoshiya ^a   Kormos, Robert L ^a   McCurry, Kenneth R ^a   McNamara, Dennis ^a   Bermudez, Christian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VALACICLOVIR; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349238202     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.02.026     Document Type: Article

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