Minimally Invasive Off-Pump Left Ventricular Assist Device Exchange: Anterolateral Thoracotomy

Artificial Organs

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 539-542

  Rojas, Sebastian V ^a   Avsar, Murat ^a   Khalpey, Zain ^b   Hanke, Jasmin S ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a   Schmitto, Jan D ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange; HeartWare; Left ventricular assist device; Thrombembolic occlusion

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EXCHANGE; HEARTWARE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; THROMBEMBOLIC OCCLUSION;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

CATECHOLAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIORLATERAL THORACOTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CENTRIFUGAL PUMP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONVALESCENCE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART GRAFT; HEMATURIA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION; SEIZURE; SKIN INCISION; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84904333252     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aor.12226     Document Type: Article

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