Pneumatic pulsatile ventricular assist device as a bridge to heart transplantation in pediatric patients

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1017-1022

  Amodeo, Antonio ^a   Brancaccio, Gianluca ^a   Michielon, Guido ^a   Filippelli, Sergio ^a   Ricci, Zaccaria ^a   Morelli, Stefano ^a   Gagliardi, Maria Giulia ^a   Iacobelli, Roberta ^a   Pongiglione, Giacomo ^a   Di Donato, Roberto M ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circulatory assist devices; Heart transplantation; Infant; Pulsatile; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

HEART; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMATICS; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; VENTILATION;

ASSIST DEVICE; CIRCULATORY ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; INFANT; MECHANICAL SUPPORT; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; PULSATILES; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

INOTROPIC AGENT; PANEL REACTIVE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIVENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; BLOOD PUMP; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE INFECTION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 78649606952     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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