Clinical experience with the tandemheart percutaneous ventricular assist device as a bridge to cardiac transplantation

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-450

  Bruckner, Brian A ^a   Jacob, Leon P ^b   Gregoric, Igor D ^b,c   Loyalka, Pranav ^b   Kar, Biswajit ^b   Cohn, William E ^b   La Francesca, Saverio ^b   Radovancevic, Branislav ^b   Frazier, O H ^b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted circulation instrumentation methods; Blood vessel prosthesis implantation; Cardiac output; Cardiomyopathies complications mortality therapy; Equipment design; Heart failure complications therapy; Heart assist devices; Hemodynamics; Preoperative care; Shock, cardiogenic mortality physiopathology therapy; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; RESUSCITATION; URINE VOLUME; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 58849162227     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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