Optical coherence tomographic evaluation of transplant coronary artery vasculopathy with correlation to cellular rejection

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-206

  Dong, Liang ^a,b,c   Maehara, Akiko ^a,b   Nazif, Tamim M ^a   Pollack, Ari T ^a   Saito, Shigeo ^a,c   Rabbani, Le Roy E ^a   Apfelbaum, Mark A ^a   Dalton, Kate ^a,d   Moses, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Jorde, Ulrich P ^a   Xu, Ke ^a,b   Mintz, Gary S ^a,b   Mancini, Donna M ^a   Weisz, Giora ^a,b,c  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Heart transplantation; Optical coherence; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALLOGRAFT; CELL MOTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EVALUATION STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; INTIMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFTS; CELL MOVEMENT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 84900386633     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.113.000949     Document Type: Article

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