The Berlin heart EXCOR® in an 11-year-old boy: A bridge to recovery after myocardial infarction

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 445-448

  Tschirkov, Alexander ^a   Nikolov, Dimitar ^a   Papantchev, Vassil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Assisted circulation methods; Child; Circulatory assist devices; Device removal; Equipment design; Heart failure; Heart assist devices; Myocardial infarction complications; Postoperative complications; Prosthesis design; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMIKACIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FUROSEMIDE; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOVENIN INTACT; ITRACONAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MILRINONE; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYCOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS;

CHILD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 37749053029     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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