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A Elaine Bond1, Karl Nelson, Cara Lynn Germany
1College of Nursing, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA. Elaine_Bond@BYU.edu
The American Journal of Nursing
|January 25, 2003
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Of the 400,000 people in the United States who develop end-stage heart failure each year, 60,000 are unresponsive to medical therapy and 2,500 undergo heart transplantation. Surgically implanted pumps, called LVADs, are extending many lives.
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