ECMO as a bridge to transplantation in biventricular dysfunction due to primary spontaneous coronary artery dissection: Letter to the editor

Transplant International

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 500-502

  Patanè, Francesco ^a   Boffini, Massimo ^a   Sansone, Fabrizio ^a   Campanella, Antonio ^a   Rinaldi, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; CASE REPORT; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTERITIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EOSINOPHILS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS;

EID: 61849118882     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2008.00805.x     Document Type: Letter

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