Continuous-flow total heart replacement device: Implanted in a 55-year-old man with end-stage heart failure and severe amyloidosis

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-546

  Frazier, O H ^a   Cohn, William E ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis therapy; Biomedical engineering; Blood flow velocity; Heart, artificial; Prosthesis design

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTINUOUS FLOW TOTAL HEART REPLACEMENT DEVICE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYLOIDOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865848337     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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