Reoperative sternotomy is associated with increased mortality after heart transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2025-2032

  George, Timothy J ^a   Beaty, Claude A ^a   Ewald, Gregory A ^b   Russell, Stuart D ^a   Shah, Ashish S ^a   Conte, John V ^b   Whitman, Glenn J ^a   Silvestry, Scott C ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERNOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870043251     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.07.039     Document Type: Article

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