Initial experience of conversion of Toyobo paracorporeal left ventricular assist device to duraheart left ventricular assist device

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 372-376

  Yoshioka, Daisuke ^a   Sakaguchi, Taichi ^a   Saito, Shunsuke ^a   Miyagawa, Shigeru ^a   Nishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasushi ^a   Fukushima, Satsuki ^a   Ueno, Takayoshi ^a   Kuratani, Toru ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Heart assist device; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE SAFETY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84856269393     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0833     Document Type: Article

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