Preoperative evaluation improves the outcome in heart transplant recipients with pulmonary hypertension-retrospective analysis of 106 cases

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3708-3710

  Zeng, Z ^a   Jiang, Z ^b   Wang, C S ^b   Luo, H ^b   Huang, Y F ^b   Jin, X H ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 78649487976     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.08.067     Document Type: Article

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