Medical ethics collides with public policy: LVAD for a patient with leukemia

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 793-798

  McCarthy, Patrick M ^b   Lamm, Richard D ^b   Sade, Robert M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYTARABINE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; IDARUBICIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23944472165     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.05.081     Document Type: Article

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