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. 2014 Jun;33(6):555-64.
doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.04.010. Epub 2014 Apr 21.

Sixth INTERMACS annual report: a 10,000-patient database

James K Kirklin  1 , David C Naftel  2 , Francis D Pagani  3 , Robert L Kormos  4 , Lynne W Stevenson  5 , Elizabeth D Blume  6 , Marissa A Miller  7 , J T Baldwin  7 , James B Young  8
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Sixth INTERMACS annual report: a 10,000-patient database

James K Kirklin et al. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014 Jun.

Erratum in

  • J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015 Oct;34(10):1356. Timothy Baldwin, J [corrected to Baldwin, J T]

Abstract

The sixth annual report of the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) summarizes the first 8 years of patient enrollment. The analysis is based on data from >10,000 patients and updates demographics, survival, adverse events and risk factors. Among patients with continuous-flow pumps, actuarial survival continues to be 80% at 1 year and 70% at 2 years. The report features a comparison of two eras of continuous-flow durable devices in the USA in terms of device strategy, patient profiles, adverse event burden, survival and quality of life.

Keywords: INTERMACS; advanced heart failure; destination therapy; mechanical support; ventricular assist device.

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