Left ventricular assist devices: let's move toward better quality of extended life, away from hospital

Òscar Miró¹, Koji Takagi^{2

3}, María G Crespo-Leiro⁴, Alexandre Mebazaa^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
² Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Musashi-Kosugi Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan.
³ INSERM UMR-S 942, Paris, France.
⁴ Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), CIBERCV, UDC, A Coruña, Spain.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Saint Louis and Lariboisière University Hospitals, Paris, France.
⁶ University Paris Diderot, Paris, France.

Comment

Òscar Miró et al. Eur Heart J. 2018.

. 2018 Oct 1;39(37):3461-3463.

doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy523.

Òscar Miró¹, Koji Takagi^{2

3}, María G Crespo-Leiro⁴, Alexandre Mebazaa^{3

5

6}

¹ Emergency Department, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
² Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Musashi-Kosugi Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan.
³ INSERM UMR-S 942, Paris, France.
⁴ Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), CIBERCV, UDC, A Coruña, Spain.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Saint Louis and Lariboisière University Hospitals, Paris, France.
⁶ University Paris Diderot, Paris, France.

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Six-month outcomes after treatment of advanced heart failure with a full magnetically levitated continuous flow left ventricular assist device: report from the ELEVATE registry.
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