Echocardiographic evaluation of ventricular assist devices in pediatric patients

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-49

  Sachdeva, Ritu ^a   Frazier, Elizabeth A ^a   Jaquiss, Robert D B ^b   Imamura, Michiaki ^a   Swearingen, Christopher J ^a   Vyas, Himesh V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b DUKE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pediatrics; Ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BIVENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; NEWBORN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PEDIATRICS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIAL HEMATOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84871362031     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.08.012     Document Type: Article

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