Cardiac recovery during continuous-flow left ventricular assist device support: Some good news from across the Atlantic

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 355-357

  Maybaum, Simon ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac transplant; cardiomyopathy; Editorials; heart failure; recovery; ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; CLENBUTEROL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LISINOPRIL; LOSARTAN;

ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CLENBUTEROL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79751528334     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.005199     Document Type: Editorial

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