Effect of donor age on long-term survival following cardiac transplantation

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-129

  Topkara, Veli K ^a,b   Cheema, Faisal H ^a   Kesavaramanujam, Satish ^a   Mercando, Michelle L ^a   Forster, Catherine S ^a   Argenziano, Michael ^a   Esrig, Barry C ^a   Oz, Mehmet C ^a   Naka, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b Physicians and Surgeons Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BODY MASS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; RACE; RECIPIENT; SURVIVAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33645214570     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2006.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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