Incidence and Risk Factors for Mortality in Infants Awaiting Heart Transplantation in the USA

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1292-1298

  Mah, Douglas ^a   Singh, Tajinder P ^a,b   Thiagarajan, Ravi R ^a,b   Gauvreau, Kimberlee ^a,c   Piercey, Gary E ^a   Blume, Elizabeth D ^a,b   Fynn Thompson, Francis ^a,b   Almond, Christopher S D ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE REGISTRY; ETHNICITY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 70450225247     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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