Retrospective review of Japanese patients undergoing heart transplantation in Japan compared with those undergoing transplantation in the United States

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1076-1078

  Oda, Noboru ^a,b   Kato, Tomoko S ^a   Komamura, Kazuo ^a   Patel, Jignesh ^c   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^c  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN; HEARTMATE XVE; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; THORATEC; TOYOBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BODY MASS; BRAIN DEATH; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DONOR; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ETHNICITY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; JAPANESE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LETTER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 79951952031     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2010.05.004     Document Type: Letter

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