Cardiac allograft vasculopathy

Chronic Allograft Failure: Natural History, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-73

  Patel, Jignesh K ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 80052621776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781498712729-18     Document Type: Chapter

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