Gender and outcome in adult congenital heart disease

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-32

  Verheugt, Carianne L ^a,b   Uiterwaal, Cuno S P M ^b   Van Der Velde, Enno T ^c   Meijboom, Folkert J ^d   Pieper, Petronella G ^e   Vliegen, Hubert W ^c   Van Dijk, Arie P J ^d   Bouma, Berto J ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b   Mulder, Barbara J M ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; AORTA; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50949126646     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.758086     Document Type: Article

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