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Ventricular assist devices for heart failure
Autoren | Angermayr L, Velasco Garrido M, Busse R |
Verlag | Health Technol Assess 3: Doc10 |
Background
Heart failure is a clinical syndrome of major epidemiological and economical importance. In Germany as in other industrialised countries it is one of the leading causes of mortality, morbidity and disability. For patients not responding to medical therapies ventricular assist devices are used as bridge to transplant, bridge to recovery or as destination therapy alternative to transplantation.
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