Bridge to Cardiac Transplant in Children: Berlin Heart versus Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1894-1901

  Imamura, Michiaki ^a   Dossey, Amy M ^a   Prodhan, Parthak ^a   Schmitz, Michael ^b   Frazier, Elizabeth ^a   Dyamenahalli, Umesh ^a   Bhutta, Adnan ^a   Morrow, W Robert ^a   Jaquiss, Robert D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRIDGE TO TRANSPLANTATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEATH; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 65649116633     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.049     Document Type: Article

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