Cerebrovascular disease in the era of left ventricular assist devices with continuous flow: Risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 878-887

  Willey, Joshua Z ^a   Demmer, Ryan T ^b   Takayama, Hiroo ^a   Colombo, Paolo C ^a   Lazar, Ronald M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; epidemiology; intracerebral hemorrhage; ischemic stroke; left ventricular assist device; stroke prevention

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84906097987     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.05.005     Document Type: Editorial

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