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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:1211-1212
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Left ventricular assist device in heart failure

Omer Ashraf, MBBS

Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

I read with great interest the article by Nicholas C. Dang and colleagues, wherein they report their experience with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in patients with chronic congestive heart failure. 1 Go There are various mechanical circulatory devices employed currently as a bridge to transplantation. The authors report their experience with the HeartMate (Thoratec Corp, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Nicholas C. Dang and Yoshifumi Naka
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2006 131: 1212. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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