Treatment of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy With Mechanical Assist Devices and Cardiac Transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1211-1217

  Zimmerman, Hannah ^a   Bose, Raj ^a   Smith, Rich ^a   Copeland, Jack G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DOBUTAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; HYDRALAZINE; LISINOPRIL; MILRINONE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; BLEEDING; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDIASTINITIS; OSTEOPENIA; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; SEIZURE; STOMACH ULCER; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77949545585     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.064     Document Type: Article

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