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January 1, 2004Cardiology

Ventricular Assist Devices as a Bridge to Transplant or Recovery

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Patients with end-stage heart failure

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AKAftab R. KheraniSMSimon MaybaumMÖMehmet C. Öz

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Overview

Reinforces VADs for transplant bridging in end-stage HF; leaves open their role in recovery and need for prospective trials.

Structured PICO

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Population
Patients with end-stage heart failure
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Intervention
Ventricular assist devices

Ventricular assist devices are the standard of care for bridging end-stage heart failure patients to transplantation, though data on bridging to recovery remains sparse.

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Kherani et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7253b875498292b70b7623https://doi.org/10.1159/000075989
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