New tools and techniques to facilitate off-pump left ventricular assist device implantation

William E Cohn

New tools and techniques to facilitate off-pump left ventricular assist device implantation

Tex Heart Inst J. 2010;37(5):559-61.

Author

William E Cohn¹

Affiliation

¹ Minimally Invasive Surgical Technology, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. wcohn@heart.thi.tmc.edu

PMID: 20978568
PMCID: PMC2953231

No abstract available

Keywords: Blood vessel prosthesis implantation; cardiac surgical procedures/methods; coronary artery bypass, off-pump; feasibility studies; heart failure/surgery; heart-assist devices.

MeSH terms

Animals
Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Heart Failure / mortality
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / therapy*
Heart-Assist Devices* / adverse effects
Hemodynamics
Humans
Prosthesis Design
Treatment Outcome