Stress Echocardiography as a Gatekeeper to Donation in Aged Marginal Donor Hearts: Anatomic and Pathologic Correlations of Abnormal Stress Echocardiography Results

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1141-1149

  Leone, Ornella ^a   Gherardi, Sonia ^b   Targa, Luigi ^b   Pasanisi, Emilio ^c   Mikus, Piero ^a   Tanganelli, Piero ^d   Maccherini, Massimo ^d   Arpesella, Giorgio ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^c   Bombardini, Tonino ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BUFALINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEATH; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN DEATH; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESSURE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 70350048375     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.05.029     Document Type: Article

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