Post-operative Nosocomial Infections After Lung and Heart Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-249

  Mattner, Frauke ^a   Fischer, Stefan ^a   Weissbrodt, Hartmut ^a   Chaberny, Iris F ^a   Sohr, Dorit ^b   Gottlieb, Jens ^a   Welte, Tobias ^a   Henke Gendo, Cornelia ^a   Gastmeier, Petra ^a   Strueber, Martin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GANCICLOVIR; ITRACONAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33847397048     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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