Less invasive left ventricular assist device placement for difficult resternotomy.
Takayama
Hiroo
H
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Naka
Yoshifumi
Y
Jorde
Ulrich P
UP
Stewart
Allan S
AS
D006333:Heart Failure / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012086:Reoperation; D056346:Sternotomy; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome