Assessment of an extracorporeal life support to LVAD bridge to heart transplant strategy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1977-1985

  Pagani, Francis D ^a,b   Aaronson, Keith D ^c   Dyke, David B ^c   Wright, Susan ^c   Swaniker, Fresca ^c   Bartlett, Robert H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034528785     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01998-6     Document Type: Article

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