Across all solid organs, adolescent age recipients have worse transplant organ survival than younger age children: A US national registry analysis

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 471-476

  Dharnidharka, Vikas R ^a,b   Lamb, Kenneth E ^a   Zheng, Jie ^b   Schechtman, Kenneth B ^b   Meier Kriesche, Herwig Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; heart; kidney; liver; lung; transplant

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGISTER; UNITED STATES; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ALLOGRAFTS; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933279010     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/petr.12464     Document Type: Article

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