Preoperative anaemia is a risk factor for mortality and morbidity following aortic valve surgery

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1051-1056

  Elmistekawy, Elsayed ^a   Rubens, Fraser ^a   Hudson, Chris ^b   McDonald, Bernard ^b   Ruel, Marc ^a   Lam, Khanh ^a   Mesana, Thierry G ^a   Boodhwani, Munir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Division of Cardiac Surgery   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Morbidity; Mortality; Preoperative anaemia

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE ANAEMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; AORTIC VALVE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887717820     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezt143     Document Type: Article

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