The waiting game: Bridging to paediatric heart transplantation

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9400, 2003, Pages 1967-1970

  Goldman, Allan P ^a   Cassidy, Jane ^b   De Leval, Marc ^a   Haynes, Simon ^b   Brown, Katherine ^a   Whitmore, Pauline ^a   Cohen, Gordon ^d   Tsang, Victor ^a   Elliott, Martin ^a   Davison, Anne ^b   Hamilton, Leslie ^b   Bolton, David ^b   Wray, Jo ^a   Hasan, Asif ^b   Radley Smith, Rosemary ^a   MacRae, Duncan ^c   Smith, Jon ^b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 10744232940     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15015-5     Document Type: Article

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