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First successful Italian clinical experience with DeBakey VAD
1Cardiac Surgery Department "Angelo De Gasperis," Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy. sasha.agati@tiscalinet.it
Abstract:
The growing number of patients waiting for heart transplantation more than tripled between 1989 and 1998. Various non-pulsatile mechanical circulatory support devices have been developed as bridge to heart transplantation in recent years. We report the first successful Italian clinical experience with an axial-flow pump, DeBakey VAD, in a patient supported as bridge to transplantation for 55 days.