Surgical Challenges in Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Australian Indigenous Population

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 295-298

  Alizzi, Ali M ^a   Knight, John L ^a   Tully, Phillip J ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Indigenous; Repair; Rheumatic heart disease; Survival; Valvular

Indexed keywords

AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POPULATION GROUPS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953122247     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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