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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:653
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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See also page 646.

DR PATRICK M. McCARTHY (Cleveland, OH): Doctor Oz, Dr Rose, Kathy Catanese, and the entire Columbia team are to be congratulated on these results. All of us using LVADs understand how much team effort this project requires. It seems that it should be relatively simple to discharge a patient, but because of the many FDA requirements and the patient and family training required, it becomes a very onerous task.

With regard to the FDA issue, we have been feeling constrained in Cleveland, and two requirements have been a problem in our patients. The first problem has been the FDA requirement for a companion. Doctor Oz, do you think that we really should do this? The device . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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