Propensity-matched analysis of association between preoperative anemia and in-hospital mortality in cardiac surgical patients undergoing valvular heart surgeries

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 373-379

  Joshi, Shreedhar ^a   George, Antony ^a   Manasa, Dhananjaya ^a   Savita, Hemalatha ^a   Krishna, Prasad ^a   Jagadeesh, A ^a  

^a SRI JAYADEVA INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCES AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Preoperative Anemia and Cardiac Surgery; Propensity Matching; Valvular Heart Disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL PATIENT; VALVULAR HEART SURGERY; COMPLICATION; HEART VALVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; FEMALE; HEART VALVES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84936750841     PISSN: 09719784     EISSN: 09745181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9784.159808     Document Type: Article

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