Clinical strategies and outcomes in advanced heart failure patients older than 70 years of age receiving the heartmate II left ventricular assist device: A community hospital experience

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 2487-2495

  Adamson, Robert M ^a   Stahovich, Marcia ^a   Chillcott, Suzanne ^a   Baradarian, Sam ^a   Chammas, Joseph ^a   Jaski, Brian ^a   Hoagland, Peter ^a   Dembitsky, Walter ^a  

^a SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced heart failure; HeartMate II; ventricular assist devices

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958844034     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.01.043     Document Type: Article

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