Outcomes comparison of surgical ventricular restoration versus heart transplantation: should we also consider the waiting list mortality?

J Card Fail. 2009 Feb;15(1):80; author reply 81. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.11.012. Epub 2008 Dec 13.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Comparative Study
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / mortality*
  • Heart Failure / surgery
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Ischemia / mortality
  • Myocardial Ischemia / pathology
  • Myocardial Ischemia / surgery
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Stroke Volume
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Function, Left
  • Waiting Lists*