LVAD Volume-Outcome Relationship: Surgeon, Center, or Both?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
² Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Electronic address: David.axelrod@hitchcock.org.

Editorial

John M Fallon et al. J Card Fail. 2016 Mar.

. 2016 Mar;22(3):238-9.

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2016.01.003. Epub 2016 Jan 14.

¹ Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
² Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire. Electronic address: David.axelrod@hitchcock.org.

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