Mechanical Ventricular Assistance as Destination Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure: Has it become a first line therapy?
Patients with end-stage heart failure have poor quality of life and prognosis.Therapeutic options are scarce and not available for all:only few patients can be transplanted and several medical and surgical strategies have shown limited ability to influence prognosis and quality of life. In the past...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Surgery |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fsurg.2015.00035/full |