6 Months of "Temporary" Support by Levitronix Left Ventricular Assist Device

Artificial Organs

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 639-642

  Barbone, Alessandro ^a   Malvindi, Pietro Giorgio ^a   Sorabella, Robert A ^c   Cortis, Graziano ^b   Tosi, Paolo F ^b   Basciu, Alessio ^a   Ferrara, Pietro ^b   Raffa, Giuseppe ^a   Citterio, Enrico ^a   Settepani, Fabrizio ^a   Ornaghi, Diego ^a   Tarelli, Giuseppe ^a   Vitali, Ettore ^a  

^a UO di Cardiochirurgia   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c Columbia University Medical Center Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Candida parapsilosis; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Fungal infection; Left ventricular assist device; Mechanical support; Multiorgan failure; Paracorporeal device

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); OXYGENATION; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCKS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FUNGAL INFECTION; MECHANICAL SUPPORT; MULTIORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PARACORPOREAL DEVICE; TEMPORARY SUPPORT;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MYCOSIS; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS;

EID: 84863533078     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01428.x     Document Type: Article

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