Follow-up of heart transplant recipients with serial echocardiographic coronary flow reserve and dobutamine stress echocardiography to detect cardiac allograft vasculopathy

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 531-539

  Sade, Leyla Elif ^a   Eroǧlu, Serpil ^a   Yüce, Deniz ^b   Bircan, Asli ^a   Pirat, Bahar ^a   Sezgin, Atilla ^a   Aydinalp, Alp ^a   Müderrisoǧlu, Haldun ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Allograft vasculopathy; Coronary flow; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Heart transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; GRAFT REJECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899483314     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.01.020     Document Type: Article

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