Mechanical circulatory support: Reality and dreams experience of a single center

Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-173

  Weitkemper, H H ^a   El Banayosy, A ^a   Arusoglu, L ^a   Sarnowski, P ^a   Korfer R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assisting devices; Device selection; Heart failure; Mechanical circulatory support; Out of hospital program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLEEDING; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART DONOR; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFECTION; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT; MYOCARDITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 3142771911     PISSN: 00221058     EISSN: 29698960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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