Incidence and Patterns of Adverse Event Onset During the First 60 Days After Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1162-1170

  Genovese, Elizabeth A ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^a,b   Teuteberg, Jeffrey J ^c   Simon, Marc A ^c   Kay, Joy ^a   Siegenthaler, Michael P ^a,c   Bhama, Jay K ^a   Bermudez, Christian A ^a,c   Lockard, Kathleen L ^a   Winowich, Steve ^a   Kormos, Robert L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349191771     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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