Gender and cardiac surgery

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 675-689

  Koch, Colleen Gorman ^a   Nussmeier, Nancy A ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ESTROGEN;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141788637     PISSN: 08898537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8537(03)00048-8     Document Type: Review

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