title: Catheterization of the AbioCor implantable replacement heart: evaluation of the unique physiology created by the device.
abstract: We performed the 1st catheterization of an AbioCor implantable replacement heart, in a patient who had developed high right-sided pump pressures, to determine whether the high pressures were caused by graft kinking or obstruction.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Assist Devices, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. rdelgado@pol.net
authors.forename: Reynolds M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Delgado
authors.forename: Mohamad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nawar
authors.forename: Catalin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Loghin
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: Igor D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Gregoric
authors.forename: Toni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pool
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Scroggins
authors.forename: Branislav
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Radovancevic
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Frazier
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz; D006354:Heart, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000502:physiology