The easier, the better: Age, creatinine, ejection fraction score for operative mortality risk stratification in a series of 29,659 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 581-586

  Ranucci, Marco ^a   Castelvecchio, Serenella ^a   Conte, Massimiliano ^b   Megliola, Gianluigi ^b   Speziale, Giuseppe ^c   Fiore, Flavio ^c   Guarracino, Fabio ^d   Scolletta, Sabino ^e   Escobar, Ricardo Martinez ^f   Falco, Mauro ^g   Bignami, Elena ^c,h   Landoni, Giovanni ^h  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b Research Ettore Sansavini Health Science Foundation   (Italy)

^c Anthea Hospital GVM Care and Research   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CREATININE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; STROKE VOLUME; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051789704     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.11.064     Document Type: Article

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