CircuLite Synergy ventricular assist device: A new approach to end-stage congestive heart failure;Sistema di assistenza ventricolare CircuLite Synergy: un nuovo approccio all'insufficienza cardiaca terminale

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 116-122

  Barbone, Alessandro ^a   Pini, Daniela ^a   Ornaghi, Diego ^a   Visigalli, Maria Maddalena ^a   Ardino, Laura ^a   Bragato, Renato ^a   Curzi, Mirko ^a   Cioccarelli, Sara Anna ^a   Di Diodoro, Lara ^a   Basciu, Alessio ^a   Cappai, Antioco ^a   Settepani, Fabrizio ^a   Citterio, Enrico ^a   Cappelleri, Alessio ^a   Calcagnino, Margherita ^a   Mangiavacchi, Maurizio ^a   Tarelli, Giuseppe ^a   Lettino, Maddalena ^a   Vitali, Ettore ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly; Heart failure; Hemodynamics; Left ventricular assist device

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLEEDING; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINNESOTA LIVING WITH HEART FAILURE QUESTIONNAIRE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PUMP; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896372253     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: 19726481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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