Anemia as an Independent Predictor of Perioperative and Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients Scheduled for Elective Vascular Surgery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1196-1200

  Dunkelgrun, Martin ^a   Hoeks, Sanne E ^a   Welten, Gijs M J M ^a   Vidakovic, Radosav ^a   Winkel, Tamara A ^a   Schouten, Olaf ^a   van Domburg, Ron T ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^b   Kuijper, Ruud ^a   Chonchol, Michael ^c   Verhagen, Hence J M ^a   Poldermans, Don ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 41349106753     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.11.072     Document Type: Article

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