Is resternotomy a risk for continuous-flow left ventricular assist device outcomes?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-87

  Tsiouris, Athanasios ^a   Brewer, Robert J ^a   Borgi, Jamil ^a   Hodari, Arielle ^a   Nemeh, Hassan W ^a   Cogan, Chad M ^a   Paone, Gaetano ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

left ventricular assist device (LVAD); outcomes; reoperative sternotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; RESTERNOTOMY; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RISK; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872679454     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12048     Document Type: Article

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