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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:2050
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Reiner Körfer, MDa, Aly El Banayosy, MDa, Hendrik Milting, PhDa

a Ruhr Universität Bochum, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Klinik für Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie, Georgstrasse 11, D-32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

e-mail: rkoerfer@hdz-nrw.de

Terminal heart failure has been one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the 20th century and its treatment will certainly be important in the next decades in industrial countries—despite increasing understanding of underlying biological processes.

Since the introduction of ventricular assist devices into clinical practice, different heart centers have published successful weaning of patients from the device without heart transplantation, which implies that transient ventricular assist device (VAD) implantation may be an alternative to heart transplantation. Indeed, years of research . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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