Sentence examples for ventricular device from inspiring English sources

Several transplantation teams report increased transplantation survey in patients assisted previously with ventricular device (VAD).

All ICH patients with hemoventricle and external ventricular device (EVD) inserted who were admitted to the neurocritical care unit between 2008 and 2011were included.

Suboptimal shunt or external ventricular device (EVD) catheter placement can result in significant morbidity, requiring system revision and consequently prolonging in-hospital stay.

There were five serious adverse events: two confusions, two infections of ventricular devices and one grade 4 thrombopenia and neutropenia.

"The significance is that it was totally implantable and offered people a better quality of life," he said, adding that among the newer developments is a left-ventricular device "that is very commonly used today as a bridge to transplant".

Such a device is being developed by Abiomed, but Joseph Rogers, the Duke University cardiologist who ran the trial, said during the press conference that most very sick heart failure patients would do better with a left-ventricular device like the HeartMate than with a full replacement of the heart.

The minimization criteria are those factors which predict the risk of acute kidney injury: eGFR (<20, 20 40, 40 60 ml/min), age (<75, >75 year), diabetes, NYHA III/IV heart failure and haematocrit (<0.39, >0.39) as identified by Mehran et al. [ 8], and whether the patient is undergoing bi-ventricular device implantation, a recognised high-risk group for CIN [ 27].

Intra-ventricular devices have long been considered the 'gold standard'; however, intra-parenchymal pressure monitoring provides equivalent pressure measurements [ 22].

All patients who received the left ventricular assist device retained the device until transplantation.

Less invasive left ventricular assist device implantation became feasible with the development of smaller devices.

The brothers later collaborated on the left ventricular assist device.