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Ventricular Assist Device Implant in the Elderly Is Associated With Increased, but Respectable Risk: A Multi-Institutional Study  Pavan Atluri, MD, Andrew.

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1 Ventricular Assist Device Implant in the Elderly Is Associated With Increased, but Respectable Risk: A Multi-Institutional Study  Pavan Atluri, MD, Andrew B. Goldstone, MD, Dale M. Kobrin, BA, Jeffrey E. Cohen, MD, John W. MacArthur, MD, Jessica L. Howard, BS, Mariell L. Jessup, MD, J. Eduardo Rame, MD, Michael A. Acker, MD, Y. Joseph Woo, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages (July 2013) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Age range at time of left ventricular assist device implant.
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3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrating cumulative survival for patients less than 70 and 70 or greater years of age undergoing continuous flow left ventricular assist device implant. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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