CentriMag left ventricular assist system: Cannulation through a right minithoracotomy

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 184-185

  Gregoric, Igor D ^a,b   Cohn, William E ^a   Akay, Mehmet H ^a   La Francesca, Saverio ^a   Myers, Tim ^a   Frazier, O H ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifugation instrumentation; Equipment design; Extracorporeal circulation instrumentation; Heart failure therapy; Heart valve prosthesis implantation; Heart assist devices; Patient selection; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; THORACOTOMY;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 47249083068     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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