Lung transplantation in patients with scleroderma: Case series, review of the literature, and criteria for transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-183

  Shitrit, David ^a   Amital, Anat ^a,b   Peled, Nir ^a,b   Raviv, Yael ^a,b   Medalion, Benjamin ^a,b   Saute, Milton ^a,b   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Pulmonary fibrosis; Pulmonary hypertension; Reperfusion injury; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GANCICLOVIR; ITRACONAZOLE; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCLERODERMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64349117391     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.00958.x     Document Type: Article

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