The Potential to Avoid Heart Transplantation in Children: Outpatient Bridge to Recovery with an Intracorporeal Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device in a 14-Year-Old

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lowry, Adam W ^a   Adachi, Iki ^a   Gregoric, Igor D ^b   Jeewa, Aamir ^a   Morales, David L S ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge to recovery; Heart failure; Mechanical circulatory support; Multiorgan system failure; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; MILRINONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; END STAGE CHRONIC HEART FAILURE; EXERCISE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACORPOREAL CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; OUTPATIENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREADMILL;

ADOLESCENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84870336362     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2012.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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