Mitral Valve Disease Presentation and Surgical Outcome in African-American Patients Compared With White Patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-93

  DiGiorgi, Paul L ^a   Baumann, F Gregory ^a   O'Leary, Anne M ^a   Schwartz, Charles F ^a   Grossi, Eugene A ^a   Ribakove, Greg H ^a   Colvin, Stephen B ^a   Galloway, Aubrey C ^a   Grau, Juan B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249074349     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.07.048     Document Type: Article

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