Pre-operative and post-operative risk factors associated with neurologic complications in patients with advanced heart failure supported by a left ventricular assist device

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Kato, Tomoko S ^a,b   Schulze, P Christian ^a   Yang, Jonathan ^c   Chan, Ernest ^c   Shahzad, Khurram ^a   Takayama, Hiroo ^c   Uriel, Nir ^a   Jorde, Ulrich ^a   Farr, Maryjane ^a   Naka, Yoshifumi ^c   Mancini, Donna ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; neurologic complications; risk factor; ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALBUMIN; SODIUM; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ULCER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83555163763     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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