Contemporary outcomes of outpatients referred for cardiac transplantation evaluation to a tertiary heart failure center: Impact of surgical alternatives

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 273-278

  Mahon, Niall G ^a   O'Neill, James O ^a   Young, James B ^a   Bennett, Renee ^b   Hoercher, Katherine ^b   Banbury, Michael K ^b   Navia, Jose L ^b   Smedira, Nicholas G ^b   McCarthy, Patrick M ^b   Starling, Randall C ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac; Heart failure; Left ventricular reconstruction; Nontransplant surgery; Outcome; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE BYPASS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 4143088285     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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