Lung Transplant Outcomes in White and African American Recipients: Special Focus on Acute and Chronic Rejection

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-13

  Lingaraju, Rajiv ^a   Pochettino, Alberto ^a   Blumenthal, Nancy P ^a   Mendez, James ^a   Lee, James ^a   Christie, Jason D ^a   Kotloff, Robert M ^a   Ahya, Vivek N ^a   Hadjiliadis, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149168722     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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