Supportive psychotherapy for patients with heart transplantation or ventricular assist devices☆☆☆
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Ventricular assist devices for heart failure
BACKGROUND Heart failure is a clinical syndrome of major epidemiological and economical importance. In Germany as in other industrialised countries it is one of the leading causes of mortality, morbidity and disability. For patients not responding to medical therapies ventricular assist devices are used as bridge to transplant, bridge to recovery or as destination therapy alternative to transpl...
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BACKGROUND Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly being used to "bridge" patients to heart transplantation. METHODS Data from 40 consecutive status 1 heart transplantation patients treated with intravenous inotrope therapy (n = 20) or the HeartMate LVAD (n = 20) were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Baseline clinical characteristics were similar in the two groups. At the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1010-7940
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.074