Relationship between race and mortality and morbidity after valve replacement surgery

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1305-1312

  Taylor, Nyali E ^a   O'Brien, Sean ^b   Edwards, Fred H ^c   Peterson, Eric D ^b   Bridges, Charles R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitral valve; Race; Surgery; Survival; Valves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 15244355510     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000157737.92938.D8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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