Effects of Early Steroid Withdrawal After Heart Transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 637-644

  Rosenbaum, David H ^a   Adams, Brian C ^a   Mitchell, Joshua D ^a   Jessen, Michael E ^a   Paul, Michelle C ^a   Kaiser, Patricia A ^a   Pappas, Paul A ^b   Meyer, Dan M ^a   Wait, Michael A ^a   Drazner, Mark H ^a   Yancy Jr , Clyde W ^a   Ring, W Steves ^a   DiMaio, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE;

EID: 33746210045     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.067     Document Type: Article

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