Total artificial heart: Destination therapy

Cardiology Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-118

  Samuels, Louis E ^a   Dowling, Robert ^b  

^a HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038247921     PISSN: 07338651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8651(02)00141-8     Document Type: Review

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