Retransplantation of a cardiac allograft inadvertently harvested from a donor with metastatic melanoma

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 741-743

  Loren, Alison W ^a   Desai, Shashank ^a   Gorman, Robert C ^b   Schuchter, Lynn M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR REJECTION;

HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0041835911     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000080561.31826.FE     Document Type: Article

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