Bridge to heart transplantation with left ventricular assist device versus inotropic agents in status 1 patients

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 756-762

  Sasaki, Hideki ^a   Mitchell, Joshua D ^a   Jessen, Michael E ^a   Lavingia, Bhavna ^a   Kaiser, Patricia A ^a   Comeaux, Ashley ^a   Dimaio, J Michael ^a   Meyer, Dan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; HLA ANTIBODY; INOTROPIC AGENT; PANEL REACTIVE ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEOPLASM; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70449508537     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00923.x     Document Type: Article

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