Lung transplant outcomes in cystic fibrosis patients with pre-operative Mycobacterium abscessus respiratory infections

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 523-529

  Lobo, Leonard J ^a   Chang, Lydia C ^a   Esther, Charles R ^a   Gilligan, Peter H ^b   Tulu, Zeynep ^a   Noone, Peadar G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis; Lung transplantation; Mycobacterium abscessus; Non tuberculous mycobacteria; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOXITIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; RIFAMPICIN; TIGECYCLINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEROID THERAPY;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NON-TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; OUTCOMES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881548421     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12140     Document Type: Article

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