The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 174-181, July 2010

Post–cardiac transplant survival after support with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device: Impact of duration of left ventricular assist device support and other variables

Read at the Eighty-ninth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, May 9–13, 2009.

  • Ranjit John, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Ranjit John, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
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  • Francis D. Pagani, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich
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  • Yoshifumi Naka, MD

      Affiliations

    • Columbia University, New York, NY
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  • Andrew Boyle, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn
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  • John V. Conte, MD

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md
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  • Stuart D. Russell, MD

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md
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  • Charles T. Klodell, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla
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  • Carmelo A. Milano, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke University, Durham, NC
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  • Joseph Rogers, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke University, Durham, NC
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  • David J. Farrar, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Thoratec Corp, Pleasanton, Calif
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  • O. Howard Frazier, MD

      Affiliations

    • Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Tex

Received 2 June 2009; received in revised form 7 January 2010; accepted 26 March 2010. published online 06 May 2010.

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 Disclosures: Joseph Rogers, Francis Pagani, Stuart Russell, and Andrew Boyle report fees and grant support from Thoratec.

PII: S0022-5223(10)00335-1

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.03.037

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 174-181, July 2010

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