Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation as Right Heart Support Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement: A New Cannulation Technique

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 218-220

  De Silva, Ravi J ^a   Soto, Claude ^a   Spratt, Phillip ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary bypass; Circulatory assist devices; ECMO; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CATHETERIZATION; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84858297361     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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