Successful experience in bridging patients to heart transplantation with the micromed DeBakey ventricular assist device

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1200-1204

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

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0037384002     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04660-X     Document Type: Article

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