Cardiac retransplantation: is it justified in times of critical donor organ shortage? Long-term single-center experience

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1185-1190

  Goerler, Heidi ^a   Simon, Andre ^a   Gohrbandt, Bernhard ^a   Hagl, Christian ^a   Oppelt, Petra ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a   Strueber, Martin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy; Graft failure; Heart retransplantation; Heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949121838     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.06.044     Document Type: Article

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