Successful Use of the Toyobo Left Ventricular Assist Device in a 16-kg Girl Awaiting Cardiac Transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1181-1183

  Masuoka, Ayumu ^a   Katogi, Toshiyuki ^a   Asano, Haruhiko ^a   Iwazaki, Mika ^a   Matsuoka, Takahiro ^a   Nishimura, Motonobu ^a   Kyo, Shunei ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33847246819     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.07.029     Document Type: Article

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