Left ventricular assist devices and other devices for end-stage heart failure: Utility of echocardiography

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-264

  Kirkpatrick, James N ^a   Wiegers, Susan E ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; End stage heart failure; Left ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956394615     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-010-0102-0     Document Type: Review

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