Hepatic dysfunction after left ventricular mechanical assist in patients with end-stage heart failure: Role of inflammatory response and hepatic microcirculation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 549-555

  Masai, Takafumi ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a   Ohtake, Shigeaki ^a   Nishida, Toshirou ^a   Nishimura, Motonobu ^a   Fukushima, Norihide ^a   Yamaguchi, Takashi ^a   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HYALURONIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036165950     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03510-X     Document Type: Article

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