Right ventricular endocardial thermography in transplanted and coronary artery disease patients: First human application

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 400-404

  Manginas, Athanassios ^a   Andreanides, Elias ^a   Leontiadis, Evangelos ^a   Sfyrakis, Petros ^b   Maounis, Themistocles ^a   Degiannis, Dimitrios ^a   Alivizatos, Petros A ^b   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Heart Transplantation and Molecular   (Greece)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; temperature; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART CATHETER; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE THERMOGRAPHY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTUM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956706084     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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