Short and Long-Term Adverse Events in Patients on Temporary Circulatory Support before DURABLE VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE: An IMACS Registry Analysis

Patients with cardiogenic shock (CS) needing temporary circulatory support (TCS) have poor survival after durable ventricular assist device (dVAD). We aimed to characterize post-dVAD adverse event burden and survival in those requiring pre-operative TCS.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - January 20, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Van-Khue Ton, Rongbing Xie, Jaime A. Hernandez-Montfort, Bart Meyns, Takeshi Nakatani, Masanobu Yanase, Steve Shaw, Stephen Pettit, Ivan Netuka, James Kirklin, Daniel J. Goldstein, Jennifer Cowger Source Type: research