Gender-based analysis of outcome after heart transplantation

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-374

  Eifert, Sandra ^a   Kofler, Sieglinde ^a   Nickel, Thomas ^a   Horster, Sophia ^a   Bigdeli, Amir Khosrow ^a   Beiras Fernandez, Andres ^a   Meiser, Bruno ^a   Kaczmarek, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocation; Cardiomyopathy; Gender medicine; Organ donation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; REGISTER; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865094042     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2011.0164     Document Type: Review

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