Fast Track Recovery Following En Bloc Heart-Lung-Liver Transplantation in a Patient with Cystic Fibrosis Complicated by Severe Portal Hypertension

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 154-156

  Konstantinov, Igor E ^a   McNeil, Keith ^a   Yeung, Shinn ^b   Fawcett, Jonathan ^b   Mullany, Daniel ^a   Dunning, John ^a  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis; Heart lung liver transplantation; Liver cirrhosis; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTAZIDIME; IMIPENEM; INSULIN; MEPREDNISONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; EXTUBATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PANCREAS INSUFFICIENCY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES;

EID: 40749097181     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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