Two decades of pediatric lung transplant in the United States: Have we improved?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zafar, Farhan ^a   Heinle, Jeffrey S ^a   Schecter, Marc G ^a   Rossano, Joseph W ^a   Mallory Jr , George B ^a   Elidemir, Okan ^a   Morales, David L S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BO; bronchiolitis obliterans; OPTN; Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; pediatric lung transplant; PLT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HALF LIFE TIME; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951771458     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.06.067     Document Type: Article

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