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01.10.2015 | Editorial
Towards destination therapy with left ventricular assist devices in Japan
verfasst von:
Satoshi Saito
Erschienen in:
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Ausgabe 10/2015
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Excerpt
Medical and electrical therapies for systolic heart failure have improved outcomes and altered the natural history of the disease. Although heart transplantation remains the most successful treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure refractory for these treatment, cardiac transplantation is available for only a minority of patients because of the lack of suitable donor hearts. As a consequence of limited donor availability, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has become an established treatment for patients with advanced heart failure as either a bridge to transplantation (BTT) or as a permanent alternative to transplantation, i.e., destination therapy (DT). …