Marginal Donor Use in Patients Undergoing Heart Transplantation With Left Ventricular Assist Device Explantation.

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The use of continuous flow (CF) left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) as a bridge to orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) has increased. This study examined survival outcomes after CF-LVAD explantation and OHT using marginal donors.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Ann. Thorac. Surg.

Title: The Annals of thoracic surgery

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1552-6259

ISSN (Print): 0003-4975

Publication date (Electronic): Dec 2015

Volume: 100

Issue: 6

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[1 ] Division of Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

[2 ] Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

[3 ] Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

[4 ] Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

[5 ] Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

[6 ] Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Electronic address: simon.maltais@vanderbilt.edu.

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Publisher Item ID: S0003-4975(15)00960-1

DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.05.110

PubMed ID: 26338051

SO-VID: d8661512-b57d-4790-b1a5-57c57ce1c3e9

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