Coronary collateral function in the transplanted heart: Propensity score matching with coronary artery disease

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 557-563

  Rutz, Tobias ^a   Gloekler, Steffen ^a   De Marchi, Stefano F ^a   Traupe, Tobias ^a   Meier, Pascal ^a   Eshtehardi, Parham ^a   Cook, Stéphane ^a   Vogel, Rolf ^a   Mohacsi, Paul ^a   Seiler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79952536387     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.215137     Document Type: Article

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