Imaging of left ventricular device complications

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mellnick, Vincent M ^a   Raptis, Demetrios A ^b   Raptis, Constantine ^a   Bhalla, Sanjeev ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Left ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CANDIDA; CARDIAC IMAGING; CATHETER INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DEVICE INFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MORTALITY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

CATHETERS; EMBOLISM; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84874658023     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: 15360237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e318232e5e4     Document Type: Review

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