Multicentre Canadian Experience With the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device: Concerns About Adverse Neurological Outcomes

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1662-1667

  Bashir, Jamil ^a   Legare, Jean Francois ^b   Freed, Darren H ^c   Cheung, Anson ^a   Rao, Vivek ^d   Toma, Mustafa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE FAILURE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; SEX RATIO; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

CANADA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84919724889     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.07.746     Document Type: Article

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