Clinical Experience With Sternotomy Versus Subcostal Approach for Exchange of the HeartMate XVE to the HeartMate II Ventricular Assist Device

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1646-1649

  Gregoric, Igor D ^a   Bruckner, Brian A ^a   Jacob, Leon ^a   Kar, Biswajit ^a   Cohn, William E ^a   La Francesca, Saverio ^a   Frazier, O H ^b  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCISION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 42949136384     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.020     Document Type: Article

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