Do heart transplant recipients need annual coronary angiography?
Author(s) -
Udo Sechtem
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
european heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1522-9645
pISSN - 0195-668X
DOI - 10.1053/euhj.2001.2660
Subject(s) - medicine , coronary angiography , cardiology , heart transplantation , angiography , heart failure , myocardial infarction
eheart failure, myocardial infarction or sudden death as initial clinical manifestations of disease[8]. dependent on the heart rate response for its effects and thus appears well suited for use in conjunctionThe fact that only 50 % of transplant recipients have angiographically recognizable disease 5 years after transplantation[2] indicates that annual routine angiography may not be the optimal way of following with perfusion scintigraphy in transplant patients. However, dipyridamole in conjunction with thallium perfusion imaging yielded low sensitivities of 21%[10] and 58%[15]. This could, however, have been causedEuropean Heart Journal (2001) 22, 895–897 doi:10.1053/euhj.2001.2660, available online a
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