Impact of Pump Replacement on Outcome in Advanced Heart Failure Patients With Left Ventricular Assist System

In conclusion, pump replacement for thrombus formation may have a strong association with worse outcome. Our results reconfirm the clinical importance of device thrombus in the management of LVAS.

Source: Artificial Organs - May 20, 2013 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Yoshio Iwashima, Masanobu Yanase, Takeshi Horio, Osamu Seguchi, Yoshihiro Murata, Tomoyuki Fujita, Koichi Toda, Yuhei Kawano, Takeshi Nakatani Tags: Main Text Article Source Type: research