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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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The Lankenau Medical Center, Medical Science Bldg, Suite 280, 100 Lancaster Ave, Wynnewood, PA 19096

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It has been more than 45 years since the inception of using a ventriclar assist device (VAD) after aortic valve surgery (the Starr-Edwards valve; Edwards Laboratories, Inc, Santa Ana, CA) was clinically introduced by Domingo Liotta and Ernest Stanley Crawford on July 18, 1963 in Houston [1]. It is fortuitous that the article by Gregoric and colleagues [2] on the use of the TandemHeart (CardiacAssist Inc, Pittsburgh, PA) as a rescue therapy for patients with critical aortic valve stenosis comes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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