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... Change (%) Kigure -4 Histogram ofEFchanjie The number ofpatients is on they-axis and the magnitude of HI' changed on the X-axis The line for zero EF change is indicated It can he seen that very- ... photocopying,recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner Printed inthe Netherlands Table of Contents List of Contributors vii Introduction ... Survival inthe Yale series Feri-operative mortality is included inthe tabulations I'hc data from other interested centers is generally consonant with the Yale findings regmding many fundamental issues...
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... benefits over abdominal implants by: 1) shortening the length ofthe cannulae (thus reducing the potential for kinking, reducing hydraulic losses thereby improving efficiency, and minimizing the ... devices, the question ofthe acceptabilit} of non-pulsatile flow for long-term or peiTnanent support in humans remains to be answered Itisimportantto note that it took several decades to collect ... an exciting prospect forthe field of circulaton support, itisin its very early stages of investigation, and results and underlying mechanisms are not cnlirelv clear The Next Generation of Devices...
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