Heartmate II implantation with right coronary bypass grafting in ischemic cardiomyopathy with "fixed" pulmonary hypertension: Treatment strategy to protect right ventricular function

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-119

  Sommer, Sebastian Patrick ^a   Gorski, Armin ^a   Aleksic, Ivan ^a   Yildirim, Cagatay ^a   Schimmer, Christoph ^a   Beissert, Matthias ^a   Weininger, Markus ^a   Leyh, Rainer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REOPERATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 73649116735     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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