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[Artificial hearts. The experience of Henri Mondor University Hospital]
D Loisance1, P Deleuze, J P Mazzucotelli
1Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, URA CNRS 1431, CHU Henri Mondor, Créteil.
Chirurgie; Memoires De L'Academie De Chirurgie
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
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.