Intra-aortic balloon entrapment in the descending aorta [2]

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-256

  Uwabe, K ^a,b   Kurihara, H ^a   Koyanagi, H ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gunma Cardiovascular Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA BALLOON; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTERIOTOMY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT REFERRAL;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34250699567     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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