Finding the Road to Rome in Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Imaging Surveillance
Sharon Chih1, Rob S B Beanlands2, Yasbanoo Moayedi3
1Division of Cardiology, Heart failure and transplantation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Transplantation
|May 5, 2022
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