Organization and collateralization of a subendocardial plexus in end-stage human heart failure

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Van Den Wijngaard, Jeroen P H M ^a   Van Horssen, Pepijn ^a   Ter Wee, Rene ^a   Coronel, Ruben ^a   De Bakker, Jacques M T ^a   De Jonge, Nicolaas ^b   Siebes, Maria ^a   Spaan, Jos A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collateral; Hypertrophy; Imaging cryomicrotome; Vascular plexus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTERIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 73549088026     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00654.2009     Document Type: Article

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