Beyond Berlin: Heart transplantation in the "untransplantable"

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 529-531

  Gandhi, Sanjiv K ^a   Grady, R Mark ^a   Huddleston, Charles B ^a   Balzer, David T ^a   Canter, Charles E ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILRINONE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTACYCLIN; SILDENAFIL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PACEMAKER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 48649086300     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.01.032     Document Type: Article

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