Assessment of intraindividual variability of coronary flow reserve in angiographically normal coronary arteries in transplant recipients: a study with intracoronary Doppler and intravascular ultrasound
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1998Author
Rieber, J
Klauss, V
König, A
Henneke, KH
Spes, C
Regar, E
Werner, F
Meiser, B
Reichart, B
Theisen, K
Mudra, H
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The development of transplant coronary artery disease (TxCAD) is the major factor limiting long term survival after heart transplantation (HTx). In addition to the morphologic evaluation of TxCAD by angiography and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), coronary flow reserve (CFR) is used as a functional parameter to assess the hemodynamic relevance of the disease.1 and 2 In most reports on patients after HTx, CFR was determined in a single epicardial artery and this measurement was considered representative for global graft function. The purpose of this study was to assess the intraindividual difference of the CFR values between two coronary arteries in patients after heart transplantation
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http://hinari-gw.who.int/whalecomwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/whalecom0/pubmed/9723336http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/35364
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Transplant Proc. 1998 Aug;30(5):1926-7Publisher
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Klinikum Innenstad Department of Opthalmology, University of Nairobi
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