Pulsatile vs. continuous flow in ventricular assist device therapy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-115

  Loor, Gabriel ^a   Gonzalez Stawinski, Gonzalo ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous flow; heart failure; left ventricular assist device; pulsatile flow; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MORBIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84865246616     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2012.03.004     Document Type: Review

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