Single-center experience with the TandemHeart percutaneous ventricular assist device to support patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 319-322

  Al Husami, Wael ^a   Yturralde, Frederick ^a   Mohanty, Guru ^a   Pastore, Christopher ^a   Lotun, Kapil ^a   Venesy, David ^a   Waxman, Sergio ^a   Pyne, Christopher ^a   Gossman, David ^a   Nesto, Richard ^a   Piemonte, Thomas ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ATHERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 46749156423     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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