A randomized active-controlled trial of mycophenolate mofetil in heart transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 507-515

  Kobashigawa, Jon ^a,b   Miller, Leslie ^c   Renlund, Dale ^d   Mentzer, Robert ^e   Alderman, Edwin ^f   Bourge, Robert ^g   Costanzo, Maria ^h   Eisen, Howard ⁱ   Dureau, Georges ^j   Ratkovec, Ranae ^k   Hummel, Manfred ^l   Ipe, David ^m   Johnson, Jay ^b   Keogh, Anne ⁿ   Mamelok, Richard ^m   Mancini, Donna ^o   Smart, Frank ^p   Valantine, Hannah ^f  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^h RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^k OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^m ROCHE BIOSCIENCE   (United States)

ⁿ ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^o New York State Psychiat Inst and New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^p Alton Oschner Clinic   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AZATHIOPRINE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 20244388105     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199808270-00016     Document Type: Article

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