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Aug 2026
Bridge or Burden? Heart Transplant Outcomes Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Explant in the Contemporary Allocation Era.
These findings suggest LVAD explant identifies a higher-risk transplant phenotype shaped by surgical burden, device-associated physiologic effects, and allocation-era transplant timing, rather than by intrinsic device-related risk alone.
Walter Navid, Chen-Chia Wang, A. Ahmad et al.
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