Body Mass Index and Outcome After Ventricular Assist Device Placement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1236-1242

  Musci, Michele ^a   Loforte, Antonio ^a   Potapov, Evgenij V ^a   Krabatsch, Thomas ^a   Weng, Yuguo ^a   Pasic, Miralem ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; CARDIAC CACHEXIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNDERWEIGHT; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52249085659     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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