The role of coronary calcium score in the risk assessment of liver transplant candidates

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 230-233

  Kemmer, N ^a   Case, J ^b   Chandna, S ^b   Neff, G W ^a  

^a Tampa General Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART STRESS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; AGED; CALCIUM; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893618087     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2013.09.035     Document Type: Article

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