Quality of life following paediatric heart transplant: Are age and activity level factors?

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 476-480

  Parent, John J ^a   Sterrett, Lauren ^a   Caldwell, Randall ^a   Darragh, Robert ^a   Schamberger, Marcus ^a   Murphy, Debbie ^a   Ebenroth, Eric ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; Heart transplant; paediatrics; quality of life

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; AGING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVALUATION STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; PEDIATRICS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922996224     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951114000134     Document Type: Article

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