Continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation as a bridge to transplantation or destination therapy: Racial disparities in outcomes

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 299-304

  Tsiouris, Athanasios ^a   Brewer, Robert J ^a   Borgi, Jamil ^a   Nemeh, Hassan ^a   Paone, Gaetano ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; left ventricular assist device; outcomes; race; racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEVICE INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873990472     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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