Heart failure reversal by ventricular unloading in patients with chronic cardiomyopathy: Criteria for weaning from ventricular assist devices

European Heart Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1148-1160

  Dandel, Michael ^a   Weng, Yuguo ^a   Siniawski, Henryk ^a   Stepanenko, Alexander ^a   Krabatsch, Thomas ^a   Potapov, Evgenij ^a   Lehmkuhl, Hans B ^a   Knosalla, Christoph ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Myocardial recovery; Risk factors; Survival; Ventricular assist devices

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL; DIGITALIS; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL; RAMIPRIL; SPIRONOLACTONE; TORASEMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855384968     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq353     Document Type: Article

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