Impact of race on mitral procedure selection and short-term outcomes of patients undergoing mitral valve surgery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Vassileva, Christina M ^a   Markwell, Steve ^a   Boley, Theresa ^a   Hazelrigg, Stephen ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN AREA;

AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052071611     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: 15226662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20101124     Document Type: Article

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