Impact of ventricular assist device complications on posttransplant survival: An analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing database

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 870-875

  Healy, Aaron H ^a   Baird, Bradley C ^a   Drakos, Stavros G ^a   Stehlik, Josef ^a   Selzman, Craig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DEVICE COMPLICATION; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE MALFUNCTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84874599848     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.10.080     Document Type: Article

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