Cardiac Size and Sex-Matching in Heart Transplantation: Size Matters in Matters of Sex and the Heart

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-83

  Reed, Robert M ^a   Netzer, Giora ^a   Hunsicker, Lawrence ^b   Mitchell, Braxton D ^a,c   Rajagopal, Keshava ^a   Scharf, Steven ^a   Eberlein, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart size mismatch; Heart transplant outcomes; Heart transplantation; Sex matching in transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DONOR RECIPIENT SEX MISMATCH; DONOR RECIPIENT WEIGHT DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART SIZE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN RECIPIENT; ORGAN SIZE MISMATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; GENDER; HEART VOLUME; SURVIVAL TIME; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DONOR SELECTION; HEART; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84893019086     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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