Omental transposition flap for salvage of ventricular assist devices

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 919-926

  Sajjadian, Ali ^a   Valerio, Ian L ^a   Acurturk, Oguz ^a   Askari, Morad A ^a   Sacks, Justin ^a   Kormos, Robert L ^a   Manders, Ernest K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXPLANT; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE FLAP; OMENTUM; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TRANSPOSITION FLAP; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT DURATION;

HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33748801492     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000232419.74219.15     Document Type: Article

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