Long-term ventricular wall actuation: Can and should it be systematically explored?

Artificial Organs

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Melvin, David B ^a   Schima, Heinz ^b   Losert, Udo M ^b   Wolner, Ernst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Mechanical circulatory support; Ventricular actuation

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HEART; MECHANISMS; MUSCLE; OUTAGES;

CONTACTING SURFACES; CORONARY FLOW; HEART FAIL; HEART FAILURE; MECHANICAL; MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT; POWER; REPOWERING; VENTRICULAR ACTUATION; VENTRICULAR WALLS;

CARDIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030063519     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.1996.tb04421.x     Document Type: Article

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