Long-term survival in patients with post-LVAD right ventricular failure: multi-state modelling with competing outcomes of heart transplant.

Multicenter data on long term survival following LVAD implantation that make use of contemporary definitions of RV failure are limited. Furthermore, traditional survival analyses censor patients who receive a bridge to heart transplant. Here we compare the outcomes of LVAD patients who develop post-operative RV failure accounting for the transitional probability of receiving an interim heart transplantation.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - May 18, 2021 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Rohan Shad, Robyn Fong, Nicolas Quach, Cayley Bowles, Patpilai Kasinpila, Michelle Li, Kate Callon, Miguel Castro, Ashrith Guha, Erik. E. Suarez, Sangjin Lee, Stefan Jovinge, Theodore Boeve, Yasuhiro Shudo, Curtis P. Langlotz, Jeffrey Teuteberg, William H Source Type: research