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Modified pericardial closure technique in patients with ventricular assist device
1Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2000
Abstract:
The use of Gore-Tex (W.L. Gore & Assoc, Flagstaff, AZ) sheet for pericardial closure in patients with left ventricular assist device as a bridge to transplant allows easy dissection of epicardial adhesions and safe resternotomy at the moment of heart transplantation, with no complications or significant cost increase related to the Gore-Tex itself.