Heartmate vented-electric left ventricular assist system: Technique for intrathoracic or intraperitoneal implantation via a left thoracotomy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 759-762

  Gregoric, Igor ^a   Wadia, Yasmin ^a   Radovancevic, Branislav ^a   Messner, Gregory ^a   Khan, Tehreen ^a   Frazier, O H ^a  

^a TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY POSITION; CANNULATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG COLLAPSE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP DESIGN; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; THORACOTOMY;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 2642523534     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2003.06.004     Document Type: Article

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