Initial report of bridge to recovery in a patient with DuraHeart LVAD

Journal of Artificial Organs

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 386-388

  Yoshioka, Daisuke ^a   Toda, Koichi ^a   Sakaguchi, Taichi ^a   Miyagawa, Shigeru ^a   Nishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasushi ^a   Fukushima, Satsuki ^a   Saito, Shunsuke ^a   Saito, Tetsuya ^a   Shibasaki, Ikuko ^a   Sakata, Yasushi ^a   Ohtani, Tomohito ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

DuraHeart; Explantation; Left ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONVALESCENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STERNOTOMY; SUTURING METHOD; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

ADULT; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84885430606     PISSN: 14347229     EISSN: 16190904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10047-013-0704-6     Document Type: Article

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