Intrathoracic Organ Transplantation From Donors With Meningitis: A Single-Center 20-Year Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1554-1556

  Bahrami, Toufan ^a   Vohra, Hunaid A ^a   Shaikhrezai, Kasra ^a   Tadjkarimi, Samad ^a   Banner, Nick ^a   Amrani, Mohammed ^a   Yacoub, Magdi ^a   Khaghani, Asghar ^a  

^a HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CADAVER DONOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CADAVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 53849097026     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.07.047     Document Type: Article

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