Airway Complications of Total Artificial Heart

The total artificial heart is the mechanical device which is used as a bridge to the heart transplant in patients with biventricular failure. Due to the mechanical nature of the device, patients receiving total artificial heart (TAH) require to be on anticoagulation therapy. Hemorrhage and coagulopa...

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Autores principales: Pathak, Vikas, Donovan, Colin, Malhotra, Rajiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250605
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_329_16
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description The total artificial heart is the mechanical device which is used as a bridge to the heart transplant in patients with biventricular failure. Due to the mechanical nature of the device, patients receiving total artificial heart (TAH) require to be on anticoagulation therapy. Hemorrhage and coagulopathy are few of the known complications of TAH.
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spelling pubmed-53300612017-03-01 Airway Complications of Total Artificial Heart Pathak, Vikas Donovan, Colin Malhotra, Rajiv Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report The total artificial heart is the mechanical device which is used as a bridge to the heart transplant in patients with biventricular failure. Due to the mechanical nature of the device, patients receiving total artificial heart (TAH) require to be on anticoagulation therapy. Hemorrhage and coagulopathy are few of the known complications of TAH. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5330061/ /pubmed/28250605 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_329_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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