TandemHeart insertion via a femoral arterial GORE-TEX graft conduit in a high-risk patient

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 462-465

  Busch, Jonas ^a   Torre Amione, Guillermo ^a   Noon, George P ^a   Loebe, Matthias ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac output, low therapy; Equipment design; Heart failure surgery therapy; Heart valve prosthesis implantation methods; Heart assist devices; Patient selection; Risk factors; Shock, cardiogenic therapy; Treatment outcome; Ventricular dysfunction, left therapy

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HIRULOG; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; LIVER ENZYME; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AORTA BALLOON; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CANNULA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRYOPRECIPITATE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GANGRENE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOSE FEEDING; OLIGURIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERCUTANEOUS VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 58849093552     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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