Improved Survival and Decreasing Incidence of Adverse Events With the HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge-to-Transplant Therapy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1227-1235

  John, Ranjit ^a   Kamdar, Forum ^a   Liao, Kenneth ^a   Colvin Adams, Monica ^b   Boyle, Andrew ^b   Joyce, Lyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRIDGE TO TRANSPLANT CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARAPLEGIA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STROKE; SURVIVAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 52049104955     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.030     Document Type: Article

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