Risk factors for invasive fungal disease in heart transplant recipients

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 227-232

  Rabin, Alexander S ^a   Givertz, Michael M ^a   Couper, Gregory S ^a   Shea, Margaret M ^a   Peixoto, Driele ^a   Yokoe, Deborah S ^a   Baden, Lindsey R ^a   Marty, Francisco M ^a   Koo, Sophia ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Candida; heart transplantation risk factors; invasive fungal disease

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONSENSUS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOTHERAPY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; AGED; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MASSACHUSETTS; MYCOSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922929776     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.09.036     Document Type: Article

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