Off-pump Exchange of Short-term Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) to Long-term Implantable VAD in Severe Coagulopathy and Multi-organ Failure

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 572-574

  Busch, Jonas ^a   Wojciechowski, Zbiguiew ^b   Torre Amione, Guillermo ^b   Loebe, Matthias ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; HIRULOG;

ADULT; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; MINIPUMP; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42749092433     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.11.568     Document Type: Article

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