Over two decades of pediatric heart transplantation: How has survival changed?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 632-639

  Morales, David L S ^a,b   Dreyer, William J ^a   Denfield, Susan W ^a   Heinle, Jeffrey S ^a,b   McKenzie, E Dean ^a,b   Graves, Daniel E ^b   Price, Jack F ^a   Towbin, Jeffrey A ^a   Frazier, O H ^c   Cooley, Denton A ^c   Fraser Jr , Charles D ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMETABOLITE; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847056328     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.09.055     Document Type: Article

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