The development of aortic insufficiency in left ventricular assist device-supported patients

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 668-674

  Cowger, Jennifer ^a   Pagani, Francis D ^b   Haft, Jonathan W ^b   Romano, Matthew A ^b   Aaronson, Keith D ^a   Kolias, Theodore J ^a  

^a Division of Cardiovascular Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Heart assist devices; Risk factors; Valves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASSIST DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; COHORT STUDIES; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 78650096247     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.109.917765     Document Type: Article

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