Multicenter Experience with Durable Biventricular Assist Devices

Severe right ventricular failure necessitating a RVAD complicates 6-11% of LVAD implants. Patient outcomes for those receiving durable continuous-flow VADs in a biventricular configuration (i.e. BiVAD) have been reported in limited case series.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - May 18, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Palak Shah, Richard Ha, Ramesh Singh, William Cotts, Eric Adler, Michael Kiernan, Michela Brambatti, Karen Meehan, Sheila Phillips, Sumanth Kidambi, Gregory P Macaluso, Dipanjan Banerjee, Dierdre Mooney, Duc Pham, Victor D. Pretorius Source Type: research