Perioperative risk and long-term results of heart transplantation after previous cardiac operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1133-1137

  Carrel, Thierry ^a,b   Neth, Jens ^a   Mohacsi, Paul ^a   Gallino, Augusto ^a   Turina, Marko I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospital of Psychiatry   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030935972     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00146-X     Document Type: Article

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