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A Fully Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device — Final Report
Author(s) -
Mandeep R. Mehra,
Nir Uriel,
Yoshifumi Naka,
Joseph C. Cleveland,
M. Yuzefpolskaya,
Christopher T. Salerno,
Mary Norine Walsh,
Carmelo A. Milano,
Chetan B. Patel,
Steven W. Hutchins,
John Ransom,
Gregory A. Ewald,
Akinobu Itoh,
Nirav Raval,
Scott Silvestry,
Rebecca Cogswell,
Ranjit John,
Arvind Bhimaraj,
Brian A. Bruckner,
Brian D. Lowes,
John Um,
Valluvan Jeevanandam,
Gabriel Sayer,
Abeel A. Mangi,
Ezequiel Molina,
Farooq H. Sheikh,
Keith D. Aaronson,
Francis D. Pagani,
William Cotts,
Antone Tatooles,
Ashok Babu,
Don Chomsky,
Jason N. Katz,
P. Tessmann,
David A. Dean,
Arun Krishnamoorthy,
Joyce Chuang,
Ia Topuria,
Poornima Sood,
Daniel J. Goldstein
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1900486
Subject(s) - axial flow pump , medicine , centrifugal pump , ventricular assist device , stroke (engine) , relative risk , surgery , confidence interval , destination therapy , cardiology , heart failure , impeller , reciprocating pump , mechanical engineering , variable displacement pump , engineering
In two interim analyses of this trial, patients with advanced heart failure who were treated with a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist device were less likely to have pump thrombosis or nondisabling stroke than were patients treated with a mechanical-bearing axial-flow left ventricular assist device.

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