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Combined Ventricular Assist Device Placement With Adjustable Gastric Band (VAD-BAND): A Promising New Technique for Morbidly Obese Patients Awaiting Potential Cardiac Transplantation
BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity remains a potential relative contraindication for cardiac transplantation. Hence, a select population of morbidly obese patients with end-stage heart failure may require a ventricular assist device (VAD) as a bridge to transplantation to afford them time to lose sufficient...
Autores principales: | Gill, Richdeep S., Karmali, Shahzeer, Nagandran, Jeevan, Frazier, Howard O., Sherman, Vadim |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elmer Press
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22505986 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr814w |
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