Pediatric cardiac transplant: Results using a steroid-free maintenance regimen

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-63

  Leonard, H ^a   Hornung, T ^a   Parry, G ^a   Dark, J H ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Heart transplantation; Morbidity; Steroids; Survival

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DISEASE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYCLOSPORINE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037293489     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2003.00014.x     Document Type: Article

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