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Continuous-flow left ventricular assist device: Current knowledge, complications, and future directions
Javier Castrodeza1,2, Carlos Ortiz-Bautista3,4, Francisco Fernández-Avilés3,4,5
1Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. jcastrodeza5@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Long-term continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices have become a real alternative to heart transplantation in patients with advanced heart failure, achieving a promising 2-year event-free survival rate with new-generation devices. Currently, this technology has spread throughout the world, and any cardiologist or cardiac surgeon should be familiar with its fundamentals and its possible complications as well as the advances made in recent years. The aim of this review is to describe current knowledge, management of complications, and future directions of this novel heart-failure therapy.
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