Cargando…

Serum Brain Natriuretic Peptide Concentration 60 Days After Surgery as a Predictor of Long-Term Prognosis in Patients Implanted With a Left Ventricular Assist Device

Mechanical circulatory support by a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is used to bridge patients with advanced heart failure to transplant or as a definitive treatment. We retrospectively sought predictors of long-term outcome in a cohort of 83 patients who had undergone LVAD treatment. We subje...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sato, Takuma, Seguchi, Osamu, Iwashima, Yoshio, Yanase, Masanobu, Nakajima, Seiko, Hieda, Michinari, Watanabe, Takuya, Sunami, Haruki, Murata, Yoshihiro, Hata, Hiroki, Fujita, Tomoyuki, Kobayashi, Junjiro, Nakatani, Takeshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26120957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MAT.0000000000000237