The Role of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in the Transplanted Heart

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1126-1140

  Estep, Jerry D ^a   Shah, Dipan J ^a   Nagueh, Sherif F ^a   Mahmarian, John J ^a   Torre Amione, Guillermo ^a   Zoghbi, William A ^a  

^a Department of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

acute cellular rejection; cardiac imaging; heart transplant; vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70149114688     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.06.006     Document Type: Review

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