Emergency reinforcement of cracked paracorporeal blood pumps

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 621-623

  Schima, Heinrich ^a,b   Reindl, Christian ^a   Stoiber, Martin ^a   Röthy, Wilfried ^b   Wieselthaler, Georg ^b  

^a Dept of Biomed Eng and Physics ^*  (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; EPOXY RESINS; SOLVENTS; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

BLOOD PUMPS; GLUING PROCEDURES;

BLOOD;

EPOXY RESIN; GLUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PUMP; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADHESIVES; ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPOXY RESINS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10044248376     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MAT.0000142874.22035.FB     Document Type: Article

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