Management options to treat gastrointestinal bleeding in patients supported on rotary left ventricular assist devices: A single-center experience

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 703-706

  Hayes, Helen M ^a   Dembo, Lawrence G ^a   Larbalestier, Robert ^a   O'Driscoll, Gerry ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Left ventricular assist device; Treatment

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PATIENT TREATMENT; ROTARY PUMPS;

ANTI-COAGULATION; ANTIPLATELETS THERAPY; BLEEDINGS; CLOPIDOGREL; GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIOS; MANAGEMENT OPTIONS; PULSATILITY; TREATMENT; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; CLOPIDOGREL; OCTREOTIDE; PANTOPRAZOLE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING;

EID: 77957280293     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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