Trends, Risk Factors, and Mortality of Unplanned 30-day Readmission After Heart Transplantation

Am J Cardiol. 2021 Sep 1:154:130-133. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2021.06.002. Epub 2021 Jul 18.

Authors

Paulino A Alvarez¹, Alexandros Briasoulis², Aaqib H Malik³

Affiliations

¹ Section of Heart Failure & Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Division of Cardiovascular medicine, Section of Heart failure and Transplantation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Electronic address: alexbriasoulis@gmail.com.
³ Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center, New York, New York.

PMID: 34284864
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2021.06.002

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Acute Kidney Injury / epidemiology*
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Clostridium Infections / epidemiology
Comorbidity
Female
Graft Rejection / epidemiology*
Heart Transplantation*
Hospital Costs
Humans
Length of Stay
Male
Medicare
Middle Aged
Mortality*
Patient Readmission / trends*
Pneumonia / epidemiology
Postoperative Complications / epidemiology*
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / epidemiology
Risk Factors
Sepsis / epidemiology
Surgical Wound Infection / epidemiology
United States
Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology
Young Adult