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Implantation of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in Juvenile Landrace Swine: A LVAD Implantation Model of Pediatric Heart Failure
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Left thoracotomy approach for implantation of the Abiomed left ventricular assist device
Nikola Dobrilovic1, Donald M Botta, Peter W Barrett
1Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|April 24, 2012
Abstract:
We describe a left thoracotomy approach for implantation of the Abiomed AB5000 left ventricular assist device (LVAD). The technique is easily performed and spares the patient a sternotomy in anticipation of future transplantation or LVAD exchange.

