冠状动脉影响到心脏移植病人能否长期存活，它的特征有内膜增生伴有心外膜以及心肌内的冠状动脉分支管腔狭窄，从而导致缺血性改变。
A rate-limiting step to long-term survival in heart transplant patients is coronary arteriopathy, which is marked intimal proliferation with lumenal narrowing of the small epicardial and intramyocardial coronary artery branches, leading to ischemic changes.