First clinical application of the duraHeart centrifugal ventricular assist device for a japanese patient

Artificial Organs

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 763-766

  Yoshitake, Isamu ^a,b   El Banayosy, Aly ^b   Yoda, Masataka ^a   Hata, Mitsumasa ^a   Sezai, Akira ^a   Niino, Tetsuya ^a   Wakui, Shinji ^b   Koerfer, Reiner ^b   Minami, Kazutomo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

DuraHeart; Heart failure; Left ventricular assist device; Rotary blood pump; Thoratec

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGATION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; HEART; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL USE; DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY; DURAHEART; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; ROTARY BLOOD PUMPS; THIRD GENERATION; THORATEC; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

CARDIOLOGY;

DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; LEVOSIMENDAN; MILRINONE; NORADRENALIN; TORASEMID; TORASEMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; BLOOD PUMP; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DETERIORATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CENTRIFUGATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DOPAMINE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETICS; MALE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 70349315344     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00902.x     Document Type: Article

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