Elective cardiac retransplantation: A viable option that can be repeated

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 822-827

  Copeland, Hannah ^a   Coelho Anderson, Romana ^b   Mineburg, Nicole ^b   McCarthy, Michael ^b   Copeland, Jack G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC RETRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ARIZONA; CARDIOMYOPATHY, RESTRICTIVE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951767685     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.027     Document Type: Article

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