The incidence, morbidity, and mortality of surgical procedures after orthotopic heart transplantation

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 225, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 686-694

  Bhatia, Devinder S ^a   Bowen, John C ^a   Money, Samuel R ^a   Van Meter, Clifford H ^a   Michael McFadden, P ^a   Kot, James B ^a   Pridjian, Ara K ^a   Ventura, Hector O ^b   Mehra, Mandeep R ^b   Smart, Frank W ^b   Ochsner, John L ^a  

^a Ochsner for Children   (United States)

^b OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ORTHOPEDICS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; THORACOTOMY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0030820552     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199706000-00006     Document Type: Article

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