Law and medical ethics in organ transplantation surgery... August committees have formulated definitions of the point of death of the person which are compatible with the lawful procurement of functioning vital organs from cadavers....
The influence of abciximab use on clinical outcome after aortocoronary vein graft interventions ... The in-hospital composite end point of death/Q-wave myocardial infarction (QWMI)/repeat revascularization was similar between the two groups....
Echocardiographic predictors of morbidity and mortality in patients with advanced heart failure the beta-blocker evaluation of survival trial (best)... A Cox proportional-hazards regression model was used to determine which echocardiographic variables predicted the primary end point of death or the secondary end point of death, HF hospitalization, or transplant....
Not those of the american medical association. does periscope provide a new perspective on diabetic treatment?...patients.3 In the Proactive trial, treatment with pio-glitazone failed to reduce significantly the primary compos-ite end point of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, revas-cularization, and amputation, even though the secondary end point of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke was reduced ...
