Use of left ventricle assist device in a pregnant woman with acute aortic and coronary dissections

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 194-195

  Kolesar, Adrian ^a   Sabol, Frantisek ^a   Luczy, Jan ^a   Bajmoczi, Milan ^b  

^a East Slovak Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Heart failure; Left ventricular assist device; Myocardial infarction; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CORONARY ANEURYSM; HEMODYNAMICS; LIVE BIRTH; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957352760     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.238501     Document Type: Article

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