Early experience in clinical use of mechanical ventricular assist levitronix® device;Pierwsze doświadczenia w klinicznym zastosowaniu systemu wspomagania serca pompa rotacyjna levitronix®

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-175

  Pawlak, Szymon ^a   Śliwka, Joanna ^a   Przybylski, Roman ^a   Grzybowski, Adam ^a   Pacholewicz, Jerzy ^a   Urbańska, Ewa ^a   Kucewicz, Ewa ^a   Zembala, Marian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cardiac assist; Circulatory insufficiency; Heart surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953075184     PISSN: 17315530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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