Detection and imaging of cardiac allograft vasculopathy

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 613-623

  Pollack, Ari ^a   Nazif, Tamim ^a   Mancini, Donna ^a   Weisz, Giora ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

angiography; cardiac allograft vasculopathy; intravascular ultrasound; OCT; transplant

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84877771070     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.03.001     Document Type: Review

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