Vascular abnormalities and cardiomyocyte lipofuscin deposits in endomyocardial biopsy specimens of heart transplant recipients: Are they related to the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Zakliczynski, Michael ^a   Nozynski, Jerzy ^a   Konecka Mrowka, Dominika ^a   Krynicka Mazurek, Anna ^b   Swierad, Marcin ^a   Maruszewski, Marcin ^a   Przybylski, Roman ^a   Zembala, Marian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Third District Hospital of Upper Silesia   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LIPOFUSCIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 67649410171     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.02.040     Document Type: Article

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