Heart transplantation: 25 years' single-centre experience

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 637-647

  Bruschi, Giuseppe ^a   Colombo, Tiziano ^a   Oliva, Fabrizio ^a   Botta, Luca ^a   Morici, Nuccia ^a   Cannata, Aldo ^a   Vittori, Claudia ^a   Turazza, Fabio ^a   Garascia, Andrea ^a   Pedrazzini, Giovanna ^a   Frigerio, Maria ^a   Martinelli, Luigi ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cardiac rejection; coronary allograft disease; heart failure; heart transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; EVEROLIMUS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEATH; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART CANCER; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; RETRANSPLANTATION; SOLID TUMOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TEAMWORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFECTION; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; OPERATIVE TIME; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REOPERATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881543597     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: 15582035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e32835dbd74     Document Type: Article

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