Factors determining post-operative readmissions after left ventricular assist device implantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1041-1047

  Tsiouris, Athanasios ^a   Paone, Gaetano ^a   Nemeh, Hassan W ^a   Brewer, Robert J ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

30 day; assist device; left ventricular; LVAD; re admission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY; TIME FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908123278     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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