Cardiovascular Mortality Among Heart Transplant Recipients With Asymptomatic Antibody-Mediated or Stable Mixed Cellular and Antibody-Mediated Rejection

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 781-784

  Kfoury, Abdallah G ^a,b   Hammond, M Elizabeth H ^a,b,c,d   Snow, Gregory L ^a   Drakos, Stavros G ^a,b,c   Stehlik, Josef ^b,c,d   Fisher, Patrick W ^a,b   Reid, Bruce B ^a,b   Everitt, Melanie D ^b,e   Bader, Feras M ^b,c   Renlund, Dale G ^a,b,c  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals (UTAH) Cardiac Transplant Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650747237     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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