Is age an independent determinant of mortality in cardiac surgery assuggested by the EuroSCORE?

BMC Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-8

  Mortasawi, Amir ^a   Arnrich, Bert ^b   Rosendahl, Ulrich ^a   Frerichs, Inez ^c   Albert, Alexander ^a   Walter, Jörg ^b   Ennker, Jürgen ^a  

^a Heart Institute Lahr/Baden   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME OF DEATH;

EID: 34248355124     PISSN: 14712482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-2-8     Document Type: Article

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