Search Results - "Tsau, Pei H"
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Risk Factor Analysis for Bridge to Transplantation With the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart
Published in The Annals of thoracic surgery (01-05-2008)“…Background Safety and efficacy studies of various mechanical circulatory support devices are important, but may not be strictly comparable. Lacking prospective…”
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Using a Dedicated Interventional Pulmonology Practice Decreases Wait Time Before Treatment Initiation for New Lung Cancer Diagnoses
Published in Lung (01-04-2019)“…Purpose While there is significant mortality and morbidity with lung cancer, early stage diagnoses carry a better prognosis. As lung cancer screening programs…”
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Cardiac Replacement with a Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplantation
Published in The New England journal of medicine (26-08-2004)“…Because the waiting list is long, critically ill patients in need of a cardiac transplant may require a “bridge” to transplantation. This is usually…”
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Pediatric bridge to heart transplantation: application of the Berlin Heart, Medos and Thoratec ventricular assist devices
Published in The Journal of heart and lung transplantation (01-01-2006)“…Bridge to transplantation (BTT) is an accepted option when a donor heart is not available. Extensive clinical study has been done with BTT in the adult…”
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Total artificial heart bridge to transplantation: a 9-year experience with 62 patients
Published in The Journal of heart and lung transplantation (01-07-2004)“…The SynCardia CardioWest total artificial heart (CardioWest TAH) is a biventricular, orthotopic, pneumatic, pulsatile blood pump driven by an external console…”
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Medical devices of the chest
Published in Radiographics (01-11-2004)“…Chest devices are encountered on a daily basis by almost all radiologists. A multitude of extrathoracic materials, from intravenous catheters to oxygen tubing…”
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Total artificial hearts: bridge to transplantation
Published in Cardiology clinics (01-02-2003)“…The CardioWest TAH was created and initially tested at the same time as the Thoratec, Novacor, and HeartMate devices. It was designed as a permanent artificial…”
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CardioWest Total Artificial Heart in a Moribund Adolescent With Left Ventricular Thrombi
Published in The Annals of thoracic surgery (01-10-2005)“…Bridge to transplant is a well-known strategy to enable patients with congestive heart failure to live until transplant. A 15-year-old boy with Beckers’…”
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Successful management of empyema in a patient with a total artificial heart
Published in The Annals of thoracic surgery (01-08-2003)“…A description of successful management of a patient who developed an empyema as a postoperative complication following the insertion of a CardioWest total…”
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Risk Factor Analysis for Bridge to Transplantation With the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart. Commentary
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Medical Devices of the Chest1
Published in Radiographics (01-11-2004)“…Chest devices are encountered on a daily basis by almost all radiologists. A multitude of extrathoracic materials, from intravenous catheters to oxygen tubing…”
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CardioWest (Jarvik) Total Artificial Heart : A Single-Center Experience With 42 Patients. Discussion
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Positive panel reactive antibody titers in patients bridged to transplantation with a mechanical assist device: risk factors and treatment
Published in ASAIO journal (1992) (01-09-1998)“…Patients who are bridged-to-transplantation with mechanical support have a high incidence of pretransplant sensitization defined by panel reactive antibody…”
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