Cardiac assist devices for end stage heart failure

Heart Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-115

  Williams, M ^a   Oz, M ^a   Mancini, D ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Left ventricular assist devices

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CENTRIFUGATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PUMP; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0035205965     PISSN: 1521737X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00132580-200103000-00008     Document Type: Review

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