Coronary allograft vasculopathy and coronary vasospasm in heart transplant recipients: A manifestation of Kounis syndrome?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kounis, George N ^a   Kouni, Sophia A ^a   Hahalis, George ^b   Gouvelou Deligianni, Georgia V ^a   Batsolaki, Maria ^a   Kounis, Nicholas G ^a  

^a Patras Highest Institute of Education and Technology   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Coronary artery spasm; Hypersensitivity; Kounis syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; KOUNIS SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY VASOSPASM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; SYNDROME; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 77957868226     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.12.061     Document Type: Article

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