Pretransplant cachexia and morbid obesity are predictors of increased mortality after heart transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 277-283

  Lietz, Katherine ^a   John, Ranjit ^a   Burke, Elizabeth A ^a   Ankersmit, Jan H ^a   McCue, Jonathan D ^a   Naka, Yoshifumi ^a   Oz, Mehmet C ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a   Edwards, Niloo M ^a,b  

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

^b Milstein Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0034899518     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200107270-00020     Document Type: Article

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