Lung Transplantation in Pulmonary Fibrosis: Challenging Early Outcomes Counterbalanced by Surprisingly Good Outcomes Beyond 15 Years

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 289-291

  Keating, D ^a   Levvey, B ^a   Kotsimbos, T ^a   Whitford, H ^a   Westall, G ^a   Williams, T ^a   Snell, G ^a  

^a ALFRED HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60649100474     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.10.042     Document Type: Article

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