American Association for Thoracic Surgery/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines on selected topics in mechanical circulatory support

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Mar;159(3):865-896. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.12.021. Epub 2020 Jan 23.

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala. Electronic address: jkirklin@uabmc.edu.
² University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
³ Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
⁴ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
⁵ Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
⁶ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
⁷ Banner Health University of Arizona Medical Center, Phoenix, Ariz.
⁸ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁹ Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala.
¹⁰ University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
¹¹ Langone Medical Center, New York University, New York, NY.
¹² Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY.
¹³ Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹⁴ Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
¹⁵ University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
¹⁶ Florida Hospital Transplant Institute, Orlando, Fla.
¹⁷ University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
¹⁸ Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minn.
¹⁹ Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
²⁰ University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
²¹ Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Newcastle upon Tyne Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
²² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.

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Keywords: advanced heart failure; continuous flow pumps; left ventricular assist device; mechanical circulatory support.

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