Endovascular stent grafting of a left ventricular assist device outflow graft pseudoaneurysm

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ganapathi, Asvin M ^a   Andersen, Nicholas D ^a   Prastein, Deyanira J ^a,c   Hashmi, Zubair A ^a   Rogers, Joseph G ^b   Milano, Carmelo A ^a,c,d   McCann, Richard L ^a   Hughes, G Chad ^a,d  

^a Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery   (United States)

^b Divisions of Cardiology   (United States)

^c Vascular Surgery   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANNULATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; END STAGE NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ENDOVASCULAR STENT GRAFTING; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE OUTFLOW GRAFT PSEUDOANEURYSM; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THORAX PAIN; VASCULAR STENT;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873627373     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.971861     Document Type: Note

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