Changing trends in mechanical circulatory assistance: Experience with 131 consecutive heartmate VE left ventricular assist devices

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-366

  Rao, Vivek ^a   Oz, Mehmet C ^b   Flannery, Margaret A ^b   Idrissi, Katharine A ^b   Argenziano, Michael ^b   Edwards, Niloo M ^b   Naka, Yoshifumi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3242782471     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.4074_11.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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