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Kasey Dee from Teleflex/Arrow discusses the current IABP sizing recommendations (20:08 minutes).
CNS complications appear to occur more frequently in patients requiring circulatory as opposed to respiratory support on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and are independently associated with mortality. It remains unclear if these complications are causative of a poor outcome or a marker of severity of the underlying condition.
Pregnancy in women with prosthetic heart valves results in live births in only about two thirds of cases, Lebanese researchers report in the September issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.