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Left Ventricular Assist Devices vs. the Total Artificial Heart: Which Causes More Cerebrovascular Accidents?
More recently, the continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been more commonly used in patients (pts) with severe left heart failure. However, these devices also have risk for strokes, both ischemic and hemorrhagic. The Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has also been used in patients with biventricular heart failure at our single institution. Both continuous flow LVADs and TAH patients are systemically anti-coagulated with warfarin and aspirin. We sought to compare stroke rates between the LVAD patients and TAH pts.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - April 1, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: C. Runyan, F. Arabia, L. Czer, M. Kittleson, E. Passano, F. Liou, J. Yabuno, H. Henry, D.H. Chang, J. Kobashigawa, J. Moriguchi Source Type: research