Somatic growth in infant heart transplant recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-34

  Chinnock, Richard ^a,b   Baum, Marti ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth; Heart transplantation; Infants

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031987989     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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