Sex Differences in Mortality Based on United Network for Organ Sharing Status while Awaiting Heart Transplantation

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Hsich, Eileen M ^a,b   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a,b   Thuita, Lucy ^a   McNamara, Dennis M ^c   Rogers, Joseph G ^d   Ishwaran, Hemant ^e   Schold, Jesse D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dilated cardiomyopathy; heart failure; heart assist devices; sex; survival; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VENTILATOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSPLANTATION; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 85021152664     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.116.003635     Document Type: Article

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