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1 Surgical Technique Influences HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis 
Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, Charisse Ward, MD, Senthil N. Jayarajan, MD, John Gaughan, PhD, Lynn M. Wilson, RN, Abeel A. Mangi, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages (October 2013) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Measurements taken for study.
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3 Fig 2 Comparison of (A) inflow cannula angle, (B) outflow cannula angle, and (C) pump pocket depth. Open bars indicate pump thrombosis; solid bars indicate control. (Post-op = postoperative.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 Chest roentgenogram of 3 patients in pump thrombosis group demonstrating acute angulation of the inflow cannula and shallowly placed pump pocket. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

5 Fig 4 Survival curve comparing the two groups. (Solid green line indicates control; dashed red line indicates pump thrombosis; N indicates the normal functioning group; Y indicates the pump thrombosis group.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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