Heart transplantation in a 36-year-old experiencing terminal heart failure caused by systemic sclerosis

Transplantation

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Martens, Eimo ^a   Lange, Philipp ^a   Pohl, Tilmann ^b   Nickel, Thomas ^a   Juchem, Gerd ^a   Kaczmarek, Ingo ^a   Theisen, Daniel ^a   Sotlar, Karl ^a   Steinbeck, Gerhard ^a   Kääb, Stefan ^a,b   Theiss, Hans D ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Kreiskrankenhaus Mindelheim Mindelheim ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DIURETIC AGENT; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBODY TITER; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCARDIAL DISEASE; ENDOCARDIUM FIBROSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; LETTER; LIPOMATOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84864255003     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31825b75df     Document Type: Letter

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