The total artificial heart in refractory cardiogenic shock: Saving the patient versus saving the heart

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 64-65

  Slepian, Marvin J ^a   Copeland, Jack G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AORTA BALLOON; ARTIFICIAL HEART; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART INDEX; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

DECISION TREES; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38649101600     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio1085     Document Type: Review

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