The impact of donor-recipient sex matching on survival after orthotopic heart transplantation: Analysis of 18 000 transplants in the modern era

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 401-408

  Weiss, Eric S ^a   Allen, Jeremiah G ^a   Patel, Nishant D ^a   Russell, Stuart D ^b   Baumgartner, William A ^a   Shah, Ashish S ^a   Conte, John V ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Outcomes; Sex; Transplantation; UNOS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; AGED; DONOR; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350447514     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.108.844183     Document Type: Article

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