Should HIV-positive recipients undergo heart transplantation?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1639-1640

  Bisleri, Gianluigi ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey A ^a   Deng, Mario C ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a   Oz, Mehmet C ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LAMIVUDINE; MILRINONE; NEVIRAPINE; TENOFOVIR; TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 0344493922     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)01216-9     Document Type: Article

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