Successful experience with Levitronix PediVAS for management of acute heart failure after Fontan surgery

Central European Journal of Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 529-532

  Bezuska, Laurynas ^a   Lebetkevicius, Virgilijus ^a   Lankutis, Kestutis ^a   Tarutis, Virgilijus ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Acute cardiac failure; Fontan surgery; Levitronix PediVAS; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FENESTRATION; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OFF PUMP SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84865793740     PISSN: 18951058     EISSN: 16443640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11536-012-0005-0     Document Type: Article

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