Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation in Children and Adolescents: A Long-term Single-center Experience

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-248

  Görler, Heidi ^a   Strüber, Martin ^a   Ballmann, Manfred ^a   Müller, Carsten ^a   Gottlieb, Jens ^a   Warnecke, Gregor ^a   Gohrbandt, Bernhard ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a   Simon, Andre ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETRANSPLANTATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61749102484     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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