Incidence and management of gastrointestinal bleeding with continuous flow assist devices

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1534-1540

  Aggarwal, Ashim ^a   Pant, Rojina ^a   Kumar, Shivani ^a   Sharma, Priya ^a   Gallagher, Colleen ^a   Tatooles, Antone J ^a   Pappas, Pat S ^a   Bhat, Geetha ^a  

^a ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ACT; activated clotting time; aortic stenosis; aortic valve; AoV; AS; b FGF; basic fibroblast growth factor; bridge to transplant; BTT; cardiopulmonary bypass; CF LVADs; continuous flow left ventricular assist devices; CPB; destination therapy; DT; EGF; endothelial growth factor; gastrointestinal; GI; heart failure; HF; IGF; INR; insulinlike growth factor; international normalized ratio; length of stay; LGI; LOS; lower gastrointestinal; packed red blood cells; PI; PRBCs; pulsatility index; UGI; upper gastrointestinal; VAD; ventricular assist device; von willebrand factor; vWF

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; OCTREOTIDE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CONTINUOUS FLOW ASSIST DEVICE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH POLYP; STOMACH ULCER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860254527     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.02.035     Document Type: Article

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