Predicting survival among high-risk pediatric cardiac transplant recipients: An analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Davies, Ryan R ^a   Russo, Mark J ^a   Mital, Seema ^b   Martens, Timothy M ^a   Sorabella, Robert S ^a   Hong, Kimberly N ^a   Gelijns, Annetine C ^a   Moskowitz, Alan J ^a   Quaegebeur, Jan M ^a   Mosca, Ralph S ^a   Chen, Jonathan M ^c  

^a Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 37549026220     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

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