Gallstone Disease in Heart Transplant Recipients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-276

  Richardson, William S ^a   Surowiec, Walter J ^a   Carter, Kristine M ^a   Howell, Todd P ^a   Mehra, Mandeep R ^a   Bowen, John C ^a  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; COMORBIDITY; ECHOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037313913     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200302000-00017     Document Type: Article

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