Complications of endomyocardial biopsy in heart transplant patients: A retrospective study of 2117 consecutive procedures

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1908-1912

  Saraiva, F ^a   Matos, V ^a   Gonalves, L ^a   Antunes, M ^a   Providencia L A ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; THROMBIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMATOTHORAX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959477784     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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