Mode and mechanisms of death after orthotopic heart transplantation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 503-509

  Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Lellouche, Nicolas ^a   Ritter, Harry ^a   Fonarow, Gregg C ^a   Patel, Jignesh K ^a   Moriguchi, Jaime ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart transplantation; Sudden death; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEATH; HEART DENERVATION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RHYTHM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSELESS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 62549090165     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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