Matching High-Risk Recipients With Marginal Donor Hearts Is a Clinically Effective Strategy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1066-1071

  Russo, Mark J ^a   Davies, Ryan R ^a   Hong, Kimberly N ^b   Chen, Jonathan M ^a   Argenziano, Michael ^a   Moskowitz, Alan ^b   Ascheim, Deborah D ^b   George, Isaac ^a   Stewart, Allan S ^a   Williams, Mathew ^a   Gelijns, Annetine ^b   Naka, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; ORGAN DONOR; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 62649167945     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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