Pre-transplant left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is associated with post transplant acute graft rejection and graft failure

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 674-680

  Mittal, Chetan ^a   Qureshi, Waqas ^a,b   Singla, Sumit ^a   Ahmad, Umair ^a   Huang, Mary Ann ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute graft rejection; Diastolic heart failure; Liver transplantation; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COLD ISCHEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DIAMETER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84896698436     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-013-2955-8     Document Type: Article

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