Cause of Death in Pediatric and Infant Heart Transplant Recipients: Review of a 20-year, Single-institution Cohort

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 579-584

  Zuppan, Craig W ^a   Wells, Linda M ^a   Kerstetter, Justin C ^a   Johnston, Joyce K ^a   Bailey, Leonard L ^a   Chinnock, Richard E ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 67349252251     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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