Randomized trial of blood eosinophil count monitoring as a guide to corticosteroid dosage adjustment after heart transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 802-809

  Trull, Andrew K ^a   Steel, Louise A ^a   Sharples, Linda D ^a   Akhlaghi, Fatemeh ^a   Parameshwar, Jayan ^a   Cary, Nathaniel ^a   Wallwork, John ^a   Large, Stephen ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE RESPONSE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 0034666369     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200009150-00017     Document Type: Article

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