Ten-year follow-up of critically ill patients undergoing heart transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 439-443

  Carrier, Michel ^a   White, Michel ^a   Pelletier, Guy ^b   Perrault, Louis P ^a   Pellerin, Michel ^a   Pelletier, L Conrad ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0034097768     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00078-4     Document Type: Article

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