Fulminant myocarditis and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: What we know, what is there still to learn?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 686-688

  Ibsen, Laura M ^a   Bratton, Susan L ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Myocarditis; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SURVIVAL;

EID: 74949092253     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181bfea82     Document Type: Editorial

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