Gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with ventricular assist devices is highest immediately after implantation

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 480-485

  French, Joshua B ^a   Pamboukian, Salpy V ^b   George, James F ^c   Smallfield, George B ^d   Tallaj, Jose A ^b   Brown, Robert N ^c   Smallfield, Melissa C ^b   Kirklin, James K ^c   Holman, William L ^c   Peter, Shajan ^d  

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

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT PATIENTS; ENDOSCOPIC INTERVENTION; GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; HAZARD ANALYSIS; POST-IMPLANTATION; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

ENDOSCOPY;

HAZARDS;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BIVENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIEULAFOY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MELENA; MONOTHERAPY; PETECHIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; STOMACH DIVERTICULOSIS; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH POLYP; STOMACH ULCER; STOMACH VARICES; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883614870     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: 1538943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0b013e3182a4b434     Document Type: Article

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