São Paulo Lung Transplantation Waiting List: Patient Characteristics and Predictors of Death

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 927-931

  Costa da Silva Jr , F ^a   Afonso Jr , J E ^a   Pego Fernandes P M ^a   Caramori, M L ^a   Jatene, F B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HEMOGLOBIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SARCOIDOSIS; SILICOSIS;

ADULT; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64349095609     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.01.048     Document Type: Article

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