• Letter to the Editor
  • Vol. 46 No. 6, 256–257
  • 15 June 2017

Asia’s First Minimal-Access Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Jia Lin Soon, Teing Ee Tan, Choon Pin Lim, David KL Sim, Hazel SP Chan, Ka Lee Kerk, Cumaraswamy Sivathasan

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has become an established therapy for end-stage heart failure, bridging patients to cardiac transplantation or to destiny in transplant-ineligible patients. New generation pumps continue to improve outcomes with 84% 1-year survival reported for the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD, HeartWare Inc, Framingham, MA).

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