Ventricular assist devices: Pharmacological aspects of a mechanical therapy

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-199

  Wever Pinzon, O ^a,b,c   Stehlik, J ^a,c   Kfoury, A G ^a,b,c   Terrovitis, J V ^d   Diakos, N A ^a,d   Charitos, C ^d   Li, D Y ^a   Drakos, S G ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Arrhythmias; Bleeding; Chronic mechanical circulatory support; Harefield protocol; HLA sensitization; Infection; Pharmacology; Right ventricular failure; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALEMTUZUMAB; ALLOANTIBODY; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BISOPROLOL; BORTEZOMIB; CARVEDILOL; CLENBUTEROL; CLOPIDOGREL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DABIGATRAN; DIGOXIN; DOBUTAMINE; HEPARIN; HYDRALAZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LISINOPRIL; LOSARTAN; MILRINONE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; PROSTAGLANDIN; RITUXIMAB; RIVAROXABAN; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ALLOSENSITIZATION; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; BLEEDING; DESENSITIZATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SAFETY; ENTEROBACTER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LEUKOPENIA; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MECHANICAL THERAPY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; SENSITIZATION; SEPSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WOUND CARE;

ANIMALS; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 84862804798     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: 1879016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2012.01.003     Document Type: Review

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