Experience of patients with end-stage heart failure who underwent heart transplant at UCLA

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 12, 1997, Pages 34-36

  Hachida, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nonoyama, Masaki ^a   Miyagishima, Masayuki ^a   Hoshi, Hironobu ^a   Iwade, Kazunori ^a   Matsuda, Naoki ^a   Saito, Satoshi ^a   Hosoda, Saichi ^a   Koyanagi, Hitoshi ^a   Laks, Hillel ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rejection; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Heart transplantation; Immunosuppressive therapy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DILTIAZEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECONOMICS; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13144257754     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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