Should orthotopic heart transplantation using marginal donors be limited to higher volume centers?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 695-702

  Kilic, Arman ^a   Weiss, Eric S ^a   Allen, Jeremiah G ^a   George, Timothy J ^a   Yuh, David D ^b   Shah, Ashish S ^a   Conte, John V ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84865265245     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.03.069     Document Type: Article

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