Pediatric lung transplantation - Are there surgical contraindications?

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-274

  Koutlas, Theodore C ^a   Bridges, Nancy D ^a   Gaynor, J William ^a   Nicolson, Susan C ^a   Steven, James M ^a   Spray, Thomas L ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030934277     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199701270-00016     Document Type: Article

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