Myocardial recovery using ventricular assist devices: Prevalence, clinical characteristics, and outcomes

Circulation

Volumn 112, Issue 9 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Simon, Marc A ^a   Kormos, Robert L ^a   Murali, Srinivas ^a   Nair, Pradeep ^a   Heffernan, Michael ^b   Gorcsan, John ^a   Winowich, Stephen ^a   McNamara, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Heart assist device; Myocarditis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIDGE TO RECOVERY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL RECOVERY; MYOCARDITIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDITIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24644466420     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.524124     Document Type: Article

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