The DeBakey VAD(TM) axial flow pump: First clinical experience with a new generation of implantable, nonpulsatile blood pumps for long-term support prior to transplantation;Die DeBakey VAD(TM)-axialpumpe: Erste klinische erfahrungen mit einer neuen generation von implantierbaren, nonpulsatilen blutpumpen als langzeit- uberbruckung bis zur transplantation

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 629-635

  Wieselthaler, Georg M ^a   Schima, Heinrich ^c   Lassnigg, Andrea ^c   Pacher, Richard ^a   Ovsenk, Thomas ^c   Laufer, Günther ^c   Noon, George P ^b   DeBakey, Michael E ^b   Wolner, Ernst ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c AKH ^*

Author keywords

Artificial heart; DeBakey VAD(TM); Heart failure; Heart assist device

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; BLOOD PUMP; CASE REPORT; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EXERCISE TEST; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION;

EID: 0032589348     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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