Mechanical ventricular support lowers pulmonary vascular resistance in a patient with congential heart disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1005-1007

  Petrofski, Jason A ^a   Hoopes, Charles W ^a   Bashore, Thomas M ^a   Russell, Stuart D ^a   Milano, Carmelo A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; REOPERATION; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037337997     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04372-2     Document Type: Article

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