Lung Transplantation in Patients 60 Years and Older: Results, Complications, and Outcomes

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1835-1841

  Smith, Philip W ^a   Wang, Hongkun ^b   Parini, Vamsi ^a   Zolak, Jason S ^a   Shen, K Robert ^a   Daniel, Thomas M ^a   Robbins, Mark K ^b   Tribble, Curtis G ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a   Jones, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750051647     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.036     Document Type: Article

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