The Ability of Comorbidity Indices to Predict Mortality After Heart Transplantation: A Validation of the Danish Comorbidity Index for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and Elixhauser Comorbidity Index

The Ability of Comorbidity Indices to Predict Mortality After Heart Transplantation: A Validation of the Danish Comorbidity Index for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and Elixhauser Comorbidity Index

Background. Advanced heart failure patients often have comorbidities of prognostic importance. However, whether total pretransplantation comorbidity burden predicts mortality in patients treated with heart transplantation (HTx) is unknown. We used population-based hospital and prescription data to e...

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Main Authors: Kasper Bonnesen, MD, Rikke E. Mols, PhD, Brian Løgstrup, MD, PhD, DMSc, Finn Gustafsson, MD, PhD, DMSc, Hans Eiskjær, MD, DMSc, Morten Schmidt, MD, PhD, DMSc
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Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2023-04-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001438

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