Severe anaemia and subcapital femur fracture in a patient with Left Ventricular Assist Device Heart Mate II: The cardiologist's management of this rare patient

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 806-808

  Gogas, Bill D ^a   Parissis, John T ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos S ^a   Iliodromitis, Efstathios K ^a   Soultanis, Konstantinos C ^a   Kostopanagiotou, Georgia G ^a   Theodoropoulos, Stergios P ^b   Kremastinos, Dimitrios T ^a   Yacoub, Magdi H ^b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Femur fracture; Left Ventricular Assist Device Heart Mate II; Severe anaemia

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMUR FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; CARDIOLOGY; COMPLICATION; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME; TRENDS;

ANEMIA; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CARDIOLOGY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME;

EID: 67749147227     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfp090     Document Type: Article

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