Tuberculosis After Heart Transplantation: Twenty Years of Experience in a Single Center in Taiwan

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2631-2633

  Chou, N K ^a   Wang, J L ^a   Chi, N H ^a   Wu, I H ^a   Huang, S C ^a   Chen, Y S ^a   Yu, H Y ^a   Tsao, C I ^a   Ko, W J ^a   Su, H Y ^a   Chang, S C ^a   Chu, S H ^a   Wang, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LUNG LESION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; TOXIC HEPATITIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 53149151059     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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