Elective HeartWare HVAD to HeartMate 3 Pump Exchange: Risk Mitigation or Increasing Risk?

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 5040, Ste E500, Chicago, IL 60637. Electronic address: csalerno@bsd.uchicago.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York, New York.
³ Heart Transplant Program, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁴ Department of Analytics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
⁵ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁶ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

Christopher Thomas Salerno et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 2023 Aug.

. 2023 Aug;116(2):438-440.

doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.12.023. Epub 2022 Dec 24.

¹ Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 5040, Ste E500, Chicago, IL 60637. Electronic address: csalerno@bsd.uchicago.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York, New York.
³ Heart Transplant Program, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁴ Department of Analytics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
⁵ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁶ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

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