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  • Title: The left ventricular assist device (LVAD). A bridge to heart transplantation.
    Author: Camp D.
    Journal: Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am; 2000 Mar; 12(1):61-8. PubMed ID: 11051919.
    Abstract:
    Since its approval by the USFDA in 1998, the LVAD has been used primarily as a bridge to transplantation. It has been effective in improving the overall health and debilitated states in patients with cardiomyopathies and CHF by restoring them to a near normal hemodynamic state and improving end-organ blood flow. Recent studies indicate that the LVAD might be useful as a destination therapy, making transplantation unnecessary, providing one solution to the imbalance of heart donor supply to transplant candidate need.
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