Left ventricular assist device therapy in advanced heart failure: patient selection and outcomes

European Journal of Heart Failure

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 595-602

  Gustafsson, Finn ^a   Rogers, Joseph G ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Indication; LVAD; Survival; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGE; AORTIC REGURGITATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLEEDING DISORDER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; POST TREATMENT SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85013655167     PISSN: 13889842     EISSN: 18790844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.779     Document Type: Review

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