Preliminary experience with the LionHeart left ventricular assist device in patients with end-stage heart failure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1469-1475

  El Banayosy, Aly ^a   Arusoglu, Latif ^b   Kizner, Lukas ^b   Morshuis, Michiel ^b   Tenderich, Gero ^b   Pae Jr , Walter E ^b   Körfer, Reiner ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; AGED; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037408283     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04097-3     Document Type: Article

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