Ventricular assist device support: For management of sustained ventricular arrhythmias

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-36

  Fasseas, Panayotis ^a   Kutalek, Steven P ^a   Samuels, Fania L ^a   Holmes, Elena C ^a   Samuels, Louis E ^a  

^a HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart assist devices, ventricular; Heart failure; Tachycardia, ventricular; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; SINUS RHYTHM;

FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0036237685     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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3. Circulatory support for myocardial infarction with ventricular arrhythmias
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5. Malignant ventricular arrhythmias are well tolerated in patients receiving long-term left ventricular assist devices
6. Malignant ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure, and assist devices