Echocardiographic indexes of rejection in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients managed without maintenance steroid immunosuppression

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 693-696

  Harada, Kenji ^a   Relier, Mark D ^a   Shiota, Takahiro ^a   Marcella, Christopher P ^a   Sahn, David J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART GRAFT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY;

BIOPSY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIAC VOLUME; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART SEPTUM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; STEROIDS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030989012     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00847-8     Document Type: Article

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