Outcomes in pediatric solid-organ transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-141

  Larosa, Christopher ^a,b   Jorge Baluarte, H ^a,b   Meyers, Kevin E C ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adherence; adolescent; cardiovascular; cognitive; growth; infection; malignancy; outcomes; pediatric; psychosocial; renal; steroids; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BK VIRUS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATHETER INFECTION; COGNITION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951613744     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01434.x     Document Type: Article

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