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Rad Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. Medicinske znanosti, No.509=36 Ožujak 2011.
Pregledni rad
The First Clinical Use of Heart Mate Ii Left Ventricular Assist System in Croatia as a Bridge-to-Transplant: A Case Report
Mislav Planinc
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Željko Sutlić
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Davor Barić
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Jozica Šikić
; Department for Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Nikola Bradić
; Department of Anesthesiology, Reanimathology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Rudež
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Daniel Unić
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Ante Legac
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravka Jonjić
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Ruža Mrkonjić
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Zorana Čekol
; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Puni tekst: pdf (385 KB),
Engleski,
Str. 93 - 99
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Sažetak
Left ventricular assist systems (LVAS) are widely accepted nowadays as a successful tool for bridging the patients with end-stage heart failure to heart transplantation (BTT). The second generations of axial-flow devices, such as the HeartMate II, provide a safe and reliable, as well as an effective hemodynamic support in such patients, offering them an improved quality of life; they are furthermore associated with a very low rate of device malfunction or infection requiring device change. We report here of our first three patients with the implanted HM II LVAS as a BTT .
Ključne riječi
heart failure; LVAD; dilatative cardiomyopathy
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