Advanced heart failure in critical patients (INTERMACS 1 and 2 levels): Ventricular assist devices or emergency transplantation?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 678-684

  Attisani, Matteo ^a   Centofanti, Paolo ^a   Torre, Michele La ^a   Boffini, Massimo ^a   Ricci, Davide ^a,b   Ribezzo, Marco ^a   Baronetto, Andrea ^a   Rinaldi, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Heart transplantation; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIVENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

ADULT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84869380770     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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