Ventricular Dysfunction Associated With Brain Trauma Is Cause for Exclusion of Young Heart Donors

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1507-1509

  Godino, M ^a   Lander, M ^a   Cacciatore, A ^a   Perez Protto, S ^a   Mizraji, R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEAD INJURY; HEART; HEART BEAT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DONOR SELECTION; HEART; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; STROKE; TISSUE DONORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 77953657623     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.04.022     Document Type: Article

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