Left ventricular assist devices as bridge to heart transplantation: The Niguarda experience

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-113

  Vitali, Ettore ^a   Lanfranconi, Marco ^a   Bruschi, Giuseppe ^a   Russo, Claudio ^a   Colombo, Tiziano ^a   Ribera, Elena ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0037365449     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8191.2003.02012.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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