Ventricular assist device application as a bridge to pediatric heart transplantation: A single center's experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 883-885

  Hsu, K H ^a   Huang, S C ^a   Chou, N H ^a   Chi, N H ^a   Tsao, C I ^a   Ko, W J ^a   Chen, Y S ^a   Chang, C I ^a   Chiu, I S ^a   Wang, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTERY DISEASE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LEG ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND DRESSING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84860778178     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2012.03.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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