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Roland Hetzer1, Evgenij V Potapov, Yuguo Weng
1Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany. hetzer@dhzb.de
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 17, 2004
Abstract:
A left lateral thoracotomy was used for implantation of the continuous-flow MicroMed DeBakey left ventricular assist device in 12 patients with previous heart operations through a median sternotomy. This approach avoids reopening the chest through a median sternotomy and reduces the risk of bleeding and subsequent complications.
