%0 Journal Article
%T Age-Dependent Impact of Pre-Transplant Intensive Care Unit Stay on Mortality in Heart Transplant Recipients
%A Dmitry Tumin
%A Don Hayes
%A Joseph D. Tobias
%A Trent Sims
%J Archive of "Cardiology Research".
%D 2019
%R 10.14740/cr870
%X Heart transplantation (HTx) is a treatment option for refractory end-stage heart failure. Severe illness requiring pre-transplant intensive care unit (ICU) stay may be a risk factor for diminished post-transplant survival, but this association is surprisingly inconsistent in recent studies. To clarify the significance of ICU stay as a risk factor for heart transplant outcomes, we aimed to define if patient age was a factor in which ICU stay was predictive of survival after HTx
%K Heart transplant
%K Cardiology
%K Intensive care medicine
%K Transplantation
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6575112/