Ethnicity as a Predictor of Graft Longevity and Recipient Mortality in Heart Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3297-3302

  Cohen, O ^a   De La Zerda, D ^a   Beygui, R E ^a   Hekmat, D ^a   Laks, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; PRAVASTATIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDIAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 37049037701     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.06.086     Document Type: Article

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