Trends in the indications and survival in pediatric heart transplants: A 24-year single-center experience in 307 patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 807-816

  Voeller, Rochus K ^a   Epstein, Deirdre J ^a   Guthrie, Tracey J ^a   Gandhi, Sanjiv K ^a   Canter, Charles E ^a   Huddleston, Charles B ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; FORECASTING; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84865246681     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.02.052     Document Type: Article

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