Etiology and outcome of outpatient fevers in pediatric heart transplant patients

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 437-442

  Crandall, Wallace V ^a   Norlin, Chuck ^a   Bullock, Emily A ^a   Shearrow, Marian E ^a   Tani, Lloyd Y ^a   Orsmond, Garth S ^a   Shaddy, Robert E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL RECORD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0029781748     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992289603500902     Document Type: Article

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