Cardiac assist devices: Present status and future opportunities

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-48

  Loisance, Daniel ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial heart; Cardiac failure; Cardiac transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL CONDITION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; STERNOTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13544265654     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.1.1.43     Document Type: Article

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