Pediatric Heart Transplantation
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Long-term results of pediatric heart transplantation.
OBJECTIVE We retrospectively reviewed 104 consecutive patients who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation between November 1989 and February 2004. PATIENTS AND METHODS From November 1989 to February 2004, the total number of heart transplantations were 1,340 cases at our institute. One hundred four (7.8%) of these 1,340 patients were pediatrics. Average age was 6.2 years, ranging from 4 m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0911-1794
DOI: 10.9794/jspccs.30.403