Distribution and morphologic features of coronary artery disease in cardiac allografts: an intracoronary ultrasound study

A Chenzbraun; F J Pinto; E L Alderman; J Botas; S N Oesterle; J S Schroeder; H Valantine; R L Popp

doi:10.1016/s0894-7317(05)80351-7

Distribution and morphologic features of coronary artery disease in cardiac allografts: an intracoronary ultrasound study

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1995 Jan-Feb;8(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/s0894-7317(05)80351-7.

Authors

A Chenzbraun¹, F J Pinto, E L Alderman, J Botas, S N Oesterle, J S Schroeder, H Valantine, R L Popp

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305, USA.

PMID: 7710741
DOI: 10.1016/s0894-7317(05)80351-7

Abstract

The longitudinal distribution and circumferential pattern of coronary intimal proliferation were studied with intravascular ultrasonography in 135 patients after heart transplantation. Eighty-seven (64%) of 135 patients had significant intimal thickening, with most lesions (63%) concentric and free of fibrosis or calcification. Both diffuse and nonuniform longitudinal patterns of intimal thickening were found.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging
Calcinosis / pathology
Chi-Square Distribution
Constriction, Pathologic / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Disease / diagnostic imaging*
Coronary Disease / pathology
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging*
Coronary Vessels / pathology
Female
Fibrosis
Heart Transplantation* / pathology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Ultrasonography, Interventional*