Sirolimus as an alternative to anticalcineurin therapy in heart transplantation: Experience of a single center

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4021-4023

  Fernandez Valls, M ^a   Gonzalez Vilchez, F ^a   Vazquez De Prada, J A ^a   Ruano, J ^a   Ruisanchez, C ^a   Martin Duran, R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEPSIS; SKIN ABSCESS;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINEURIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 29544433532     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.09.152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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