Long-term follow-up of living-donor single lobe transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in a child

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 451-452

  Toyooka, Shinichi ^a   Sano, Yoshifumi ^a   Yamane, Masaomi ^a   Oto, Takahiro ^a   Okazaki, Megumi ^a   Kusano, Kengo Fukushima ^a   Date, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISONE; PROSTACYCLIN;

ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVING DONOR; LUNG LOBE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCHOOL CHILD; VITAL CAPACITY;

CHILD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LIVING DONORS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38649099067     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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