Early graft failure after heart transplant: Risk factors and implications for improved donor-recipient matching

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-62

  Amarelli, Cristiano ^a   De Santo, Luca Salvatore ^a   Marra, Claudio ^a   Maiello, Ciro ^a   Bancone, Ciro ^b   Della Corte, Alessandro ^b   Nappi, Gianantonio ^b   Romano, Gianpaolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early graft failure; Heart transplantation; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HLA ANTIGEN; ISOPRENALINE; LEVOSIMENDAN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SILDENAFIL; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; LOW RISK POPULATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN SECRETION; REOPERATION; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84863462465     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs113     Document Type: Article

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