Open AccessLower body surface area is highly related to mortality due to stroke or systemic bleeding in patients receiving an axial flow blood pump as a left ventricular assist device
Author(s) -
Takeshi Komoda,
Thorsten Drews,
R. Hetzer,
H. B. Lehmkuhl
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezs483
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , hazard ratio , body surface area , stroke (engine) , sepsis , cardiology , ventricular assist device , proportional hazards model , surgery , multivariate analysis , heart failure , engineering , mechanical engineering
Even though left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) may fit into the bodies of small adult patients, their prognosis is worse than that of larger patients. We investigated the relationship between lethal complications and the body surface area (BSA) in patients who received an LVAD.
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