Late bleeding from right internal mammary artery after heartmate left ventricular assist device implantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 689-691

  Kohmoto, Takushi ^a   Oz, Mehmet C ^a   Naka, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMPLANTATION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASPIRIN; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEPARIN; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDITIS; OSTEOTOMY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; STERNUM; THORACOTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 3242799881     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01383-3     Document Type: Article

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