Liver transplantation for children: Red Cross Children's Hospital experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1134-1137

  Spearman, C W N ^a,b   McCulloch, M ^a   Millar, A J W ^a   Burger, H ^a   Numanoglu, A ^a   Goddard, E ^a   Cooke, L ^a   Cywes, S ^a   Rode, H ^a   Kahn, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DACLIZUMAB; FAMCICLOVIR; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LAMIVUDINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; RAPAMYCIN; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLEEDING; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DONOR; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RED CROSS; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 17944362840     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.12.285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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