A multi-institutional outcome analysis of patients undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation stratified by sex and race

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 64-70

  Meeteren, Justin van ^a   Maltais, Simon ^a   Dunlay, Shannon M ^a   Haglund, Nicholas A ^b   Beth Davis, Mary ^b   Cowger, Jennifer ^c   Shah, Palak ^d   Aaronson, Keith D ^e   Pagani, Francis D ^e   Stulak, John M ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ST VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INOVA HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; mechanical circulatory assistance; race; ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVELINE INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RATE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REOPERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STERNOTOMY; THROMBUS; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; ANCESTRY GROUP; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS COMPLICATION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85006049838     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.08.027     Document Type: Article

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