Heart-Lung Transplantation in a 14-year-old Boy With Alström Syndrome

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1217-1218

  Goerler, Heidi ^a   Warnecke, Gregor ^a   Winterhalter, Michael ^a   Müller, Carsten ^a   Ballmann, Manfred ^a   Wessel, Armin ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a   Strüber, Martin ^a   Simon, Andre ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ALSTROM SYNDROME; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DEAFNESS; HEART FAILURE; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; OBESITY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SYNDROME;

EID: 36048954453     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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