Quantitative myocardial blush grade for the detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy

American Heart Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Korosoglou, Grigorios ^a   Riedle, Nina ^a   Erbacher, Markus ^a   Dengler, Thomas J ^a   Zugck, Christian ^a   Rottbauer, Wolfgang ^a   Hardt, Stefan ^a   Bekeredjian, Raffi ^a   Kristen, Arnt ^a   Giannitsis, Evangelos ^a   Osman, Neal F ^b,c   Dickhaus, Hartmut ^a   Katus, Hugo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NILE UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL BLUSH GRADE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENOSIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 77950174071     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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