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Heart failure reversal by ventricular unloading in patients with chronic cardiomyopathy: criteria for weaning from ventricular assist devices

AIMS: Unloading-promoted reversal of heart failure (HF) allows long-term transplant-free outcome after ventricular assist device (VAD) removal. However, because few patients with chronic cardiomyopathy (CCM) were weaned from VADs (the majority only recently), the reliability of criteria used for wea...

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Autores principales: Dandel, Michael, Weng, Yuguo, Siniawski, Henryk, Stepanenko, Alexander, Krabatsch, Thomas, Potapov, Evgenij, Lehmkuhl, Hans B., Knosalla, Christoph, Hetzer, Roland
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3086897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20929978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehq353