A Clinical Correlation Study of Severity of Antibody-mediated Rejection and Cardiovascular Mortality in Heart Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-57

  Kfoury, Abdallah G ^a,e   Renlund, Dale G ^a,b,e   Snow, Gregory L ^a   Stehlik, Josef ^b,c,e   Folsom, Jan W ^a,e   Fisher, Patrick W ^a,e   Reid, Bruce B ^a,e   Clayson, Stephen E ^a,e   Gilbert, Edward M ^b,e   Everitt, Melanie D ^d,e   Bader, Feras M ^b,e   Singhal, Arun K ^b,e   Hammond, M Elizabeth H ^a,b,c,e  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals (UTAH) Cardiac Transplant Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; UTAH;

EID: 58149147177     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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