Coronary cardiac allograft vasculopathy versus native atherosclerosis: difficulties in classification.

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Published in Virchows Arch on May 08, 2014

Authors

Annalisa Angelini1, Chiara Castellani, Marny Fedrigo, Onno J de Boer, Lorine B Meijer-Jorna, Xiaofei Li, Marialuisa Valente, Gaetano Thiene, Allard C van der Wal

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Via Gabelli, 61, 35100, Padua, Italy, annalisa.angelini@unipd.it.

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