Heart transplantation in patients with end-stage heart failure and cardiac ascites

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1744-1748

  Hsu, Ron Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ascites; Heart transplantation; Hypoalbuminemia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASCITES; BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36949014986     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.1744     Document Type: Article

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