Predictive value of preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction and functional class for mortality and morbidity after high-risk coronary artery bypass grafting

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1489-1491

  Olshansky, Brian ^a   Telfer, E Alexander ^b   Curtis, Anne B ^c   Bigger Jr , J Thomas ^d  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0034659653     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)00801-8     Document Type: Article

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