Lower body surface area is highly related to mortality due to stroke or systemic bleeding in patients receiving an axial flow blood pump as a left ventricular assist device

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1036-1042

  Komoda, Takeshi ^a   Drews, Thorsten ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a   Lehmkuhl, Hans B ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body surface area; Heart failure; Mortality; Stroke; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

AGED; BODY SURFACE AREA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84876833961     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezs483     Document Type: Article

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