Tricuspid Incompetence and Geometry of the Right Ventricle as Predictors of Right Ventricular Function After Implantation of a Left Ventricular Assist Device

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1275-1281

  Potapov, Evgenij V ^a   Stepanenko, Alexander ^a   Dandel, Michael ^a   Kukucka, Marian ^a   Lehmkuhl, Hans B ^a   Weng, Yuguo ^a   Hennig, Felix ^a   Krabatsch, Thomas ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HEART LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 57049100424     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.08.012     Document Type: Article

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