Does the type of ventricular assisted device influence survival, infection, and rejection rates following heart transplantation?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 250-255

  Shuhaiber, Jeffrey ^a   Hur, Kwan ^a,b   Gibbons, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651162251     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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