Significance of positive cultures from donor left atrium and postpreservation fluid in heart transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1209-1210

  Mossad, Sherif B ^a   Avery, Robin K ^a   Goormastic, Marlene ^a   Hobbs, Robert E ^a   Stewart, Robert W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0030671298     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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