Advising complex patients who require complex heart operations

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Pettersson, Gösta B ^a   Martino, Derlis ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Nowicki, Edward R ^a   Houghtaling, Penny L ^a   Sabik III, Joseph F ^a   Lytle, Bruce W ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE RESECTION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR;

EID: 84876420192     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.11.035     Document Type: Editorial

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