An empirically based tool for analyzing morbidity associated with operations for congenital heart disease

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Jacobs, Marshall L ^a   O'Brien, Sean M ^b   Jacobs, Jeffrey P ^c   Mavroudis, Constantine ^d   Lacour Gayet, Francois ^e   Pasquali, Sara K ^b   Welke, Karl ^f   Pizarro, Christian ^g   Tsai, Felix ^h   Clarke, David R ⁱ  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE   (United States)

^f SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^h CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF THE KING S DAUGHTERS   (United States)

ⁱ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANALYZER; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMBINED ATRIAL SWITCH AND RASTELLI OPERATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA LIGATION; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; VALVULOPLASTY;

EID: 84875221881     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.06.029     Document Type: Article

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