Acute diverticulitis in heart transplant recipients

Transplant International

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 376-379

  Detry, O ^a   Defraigne, J O ^a   Meurisse, M ^a   Bertrand, O ^a   Demoulin, J C ^a   Honore P ^a   Jacquet, N ^a   Limet, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diverticulitis, heart transplantation; Heart transplantation, diverticulitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDECTOMY;

ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; COLECTOMY; COLOSTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0029899403     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00335698     Document Type: Article

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