The impact of volume reduction on early and long-term outcomes in surgical ventricular restoration for severe heart failure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 104-112

  Skelley, Nathan Wm ^a   Allen, Jeremiah G ^a   Arnaoutakis, George J ^a   Weiss, Eric S ^a,b   Patel, Nishant D ^a   Conte, John V ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL VENTRICULAR RESTORATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650494920     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.09.059     Document Type: Article

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