Ventricular Assist Devices and Aggressive Immunosuppression: Looking Beyond Overall Survival

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 613-618

  Gonzalez Stawinski, Gonzalo V ^a   Cook, Daniel J ^a   Chang, Albert S Y ^a   Banbury, Michael K ^a   Navia, Jose L ^a   Hoercher, Katherine ^a   Lober, Cheryl ^a   Atik, Fernando A ^a   Taylor, David O ^a   Yamani, Mohamed H ^a   Young, James B ^a   Starling, Randall C ^a   Smedira, Nicholas G ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DESENSITIZATION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SURVIVAL; TIME;

AGED; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MUROMONAB-CD3; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMAPHERESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33646761970     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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