Open AccessHeart Transplantation in Women With Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Author(s) -
Vera RegitzZagrosek,
George Petrov,
Elke Lehmkuhl,
J. Smits,
Birgit Babitsch,
Claudia Brunhuber,
B. Jurmann,
Julia Stein,
Carola Schubert,
Noel Bairey Merz,
H. Lehmkuhl,
Roland Hetzer
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e3181c35255
Subject(s) - medicine , dilated cardiomyopathy , heart transplantation , ejection fraction , heart failure , transplantation , cardiology , cohort , surgery
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is responsible for over half of all heart transplants. Fewer women with DCM undergo heart transplants than men with DCM; the reasons for this state of affairs are unclear.