Left ventricular assist device vegetation: "Cure" without device explantation

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 549-551

  Gogas, Bill D ^a,b   Parissis, John T ^a   Iliodromitis, Efstathios K ^a   Tsiodras, Sotirios ^c   Radu, Maria ^b   Paraskevaidis, Ioannis A ^a   Theodoropoulos, Stergios P ^d   Kremastinos, Dimitrios T ^a   Yacoub, Magdi H ^e  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c University Hospital Attikon   (Greece)

^d IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Heart Mate II; Left ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DEVICE INFECTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 78650594868     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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