Outcomes among pediatric heart transplant recipients.

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Published in Tex Heart Inst J on January 01, 1997

Authors

R J Gajarski1, H M Rosenblatt, S W Denfield, K O Schowengerdt, J K Price, J A Towbin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston 77030, USA.

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