[Artificial hearts. The experience of Henri Mondor University Hospital].
Results obtained with 52 patients referred for urgent heart transplantation or when transplantation was impossible because no graft, mechanical assistance or circulatory support were available, are reported. These suggest that the protocol used to select the indications of assistance and transplantation, based on the response to the introduction of enoximone into the medical treatment, allows reconciling the patients' interest-their survival-with the community's interest-i.e. the control of the costs of implemented treatments.
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Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, URA CNRS 1431, CHU Henri Mondor, Créteil.
Deleuze
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Mazzucotelli
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Benvenuti
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Hillion
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Dubois-Rande
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Saal
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Lemaire
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Castaigne
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Sailly
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D000328:Adult; D004630:Emergencies; D005602:France; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000191:economics; D006354:Heart, Artificial / Q000191:economics; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013997:Time Factors
Les coeurs artificiels. L'expérience du CHU Henri Mondor.