Clinical experience with 111 thoratec ventricular assist devices

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1233-1238

  McBride, Lawrence R ^a   Naunheim, Keith S ^a   Fiore, Andrew C ^a   Moroney, Debbie A ^a   Swartz, Marc T ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0032987635     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00246-5     Document Type: Article

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