Risk factors for early death in patients awaiting heart-lung or lung transplantation: Experience at a single European center

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-127

  D'Armini, Andrea M ^a   Callegari, Giovanna ^b   Vitulo, Patrizio ^a   Klersy, Catherine ^a   Rinaldi, Mauro ^a   Pederzolli, Carlo ^a   Grande, Antonino M ^a   Fracchia, Claudio ^b   Viganò, Mario ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032528010     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199807150-00021     Document Type: Article

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