Clinical Experience Using the Levitronix CentriMag System for Temporary Right Ventricular Mechanical Circulatory Support

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 971-976

  Bhama, Jay K ^a   Kormos, Robert L ^a   Toyoda, Yoshiya ^a   Teuteberg, Jeffrey J ^a   McCurry, Kenneth R ^a   Siegenthaler, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 68949214352     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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