Racial differences in patients with left ventricular assist devices

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 499-502

  Aggarwal, Ashim ^a   Gupta, Ankit ^a   Pappas, Pat S ^a   Tatooles, Antone ^a   Bhat, Geetha ^a  

^a ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COVARIATES; COX REGRESSION ANALYSIS; END-DIASTOLIC; END-SYSTOLIC; HEART FAILURE; KAPLAN-MEIER; LEFT VENTRICULAR; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; MULTI VARIABLES; PATIENT DATA; RACIAL DIFFERENCE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84865865866     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0b013e318268ea80     Document Type: Review

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