The Potential Impact of Substitutive Therapy With Intravenous Immunoglobulin on the Outcome of Heart Transplant Recipients With Infections

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2385-2388

  Carbone, J ^a   Sarmiento, E ^a   Palomo, J ^a   Fernandez Yanez J ^a   Munoz P ^a   Bouza, E ^a   Rodriguez Molina J ^a   Lanio, N ^a   Fernandez Cruz, E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CEFAZOLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHELOMETRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; AGED; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548703848     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.06.050     Document Type: Article

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