Freedom from graft vessel disease in heart and combined heart- and kidney-transplanted patients treated with tacrolimus-based immunosuppression

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1787-1792

  Groetzner, Jan ^a,b   Kaczmarek, Ingo ^a   Mueller, Markus ^a   Huber, Stefan ^a   Deutsch, Andre ^a   Daebritz, Sabine ^a   Arbogast, Helmut ^a   Meiser, Bruno ^a   Reichart, Bruno ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GANCICLOVIR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27844437221     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.03.012     Document Type: Article

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