Development of a novel echocardiography ramp test for speed optimization and diagnosis of device thrombosis in continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices: The Columbia ramp study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 60, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1764-1775

  Uriel, Nir ^a   Morrison, Kerry A ^a   Garan, Arthur R ^a   Kato, Tomoko S ^a   Yuzefpolskaya, Melana ^a   Latif, Farhana ^a   Restaino, Susan W ^a   Mancini, Donna M ^a   Flannery, Margaret ^a   Takayama, Hiroo ^a   John, Ranjit ^b   Colombo, Paolo C ^a   Naka, Yoshifumi ^a   Jorde, Ulrich P ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

device thrombosis; LVAD; LVEDD; ramp test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOMBIA; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; DEVICE THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOSIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84867890273     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.07.052     Document Type: Article

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