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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1689
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Monitoring recovery and weaning from the thoratec left ventricular assist device

Angel L. Fernández, MDa, Amparo Martínez, MDa

a Departments of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago Ave. Choupana, s/n 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

e-mail: alfg@inicia.es

To the Editor

We read with interest the article by Slaughter and colleagues [1]. This excellent article describes a new technique for monitoring myocardial recovery and a weaning protocol, which permits gradual ventricular reloading and a longer period of observation before device removal.

Several questions remain related to the experience reported by Slaughter and associates.

First, what were the criteria for patient selection? Data dealing with preoperative left ventricular function and size and peak oxygen consumption as well as pulmonary artery pressure and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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