Impact of Recipient's Age on Heart Transplantation Outcome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2051-2055

  Tjang, Yanto Sandy ^a,b,c   van der Heijden, Geert J M G ^a   Tenderich, Gero ^b   Körfer, Reiner ^b   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 43649091182     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.015     Document Type: Article

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