Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for graft failure after heart transplantation: Recent Vienna experience

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 819-820

  Taghavi, S ^a   Ankersmit, H J ^a   Wieselthaler, G ^a   Gorlitzer, M ^a   Rajek, A ^a   Wolner, E ^a   Grimm, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035497309     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2001.115692     Document Type: Article

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