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MELD-XI score and cardiac mortality or transplantation in patients after Fontan surgery

Gabriele Egidy Assenza, Dionne A. Graham, Michael J. Landzberg, Anne Marie Valente, Michael Singh, Aamir Bashir, Susan M. Fernandes, Koenraad J. Mortelé, Chinweike Ukomadu, Massimo Volpe,

Heart · 2013 · 173 citations · 18 references

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Abstract

Fontan patients with a higher MELD-XI score have shorter freedom from sudden cardiac death, death from congestive heart failure and cardiac transplantation.

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