First clinical implant of the VentrAssist left ventricular assist system as destination therapy for end-stage heart failure

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1150-1154

  Esmore, Donald S ^a   Kaye, David ^a   Salamonsen, Robert ^a   Buckland, Mark ^a   Rowland, Michael ^a   Negri, Justin ^a   Rowley, Yvonne ^a   Woodard, John ^c   Begg, John R ^c   Ayre, Peter ^c   Rosenfeldt, Franklin L ^a,b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Ventracor Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; APROTININ; DOBUTAMINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; IRBESARTAN; MEROPENEM; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEVICE INFECTION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPLANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 23744469834     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.01.014     Document Type: Article

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