Successful launch of cardiac transplantation in Japan

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 326-332

  Hori, Masatsugu ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Kodama, Kazuhisa ^b   Takashima, Seiji ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Koretsune, Yukihiro ^c   Kuzuya, Tsunehiko ^a   Yutani, Chikao ^d   Fukushima, Norihide ^a   Ohtake, Shigeaki ^a   Shirakura, Ryota ^a   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain death; Cardiac transplantation; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOPAMINE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE;

BRAIN DEATH; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0347998394     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.326     Document Type: Review

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