Factors affecting survival after orthotopic liver transplantation in infants

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 242-248

  Cacciarelli, Thomas V ^a   Esquivel, Carlos O ^a   Moore, Dan H ^b   Cox, Kenneth L ^a   Berquist, William E ^a   Concepcion, Waldo ^a   Hammer, Gregory B ^a   So, Samuel K S ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN SURGERY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGING; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYCLOSPORINE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0030878961     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199707270-00011     Document Type: Article

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