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Ventricular Assist Devices in Advanced-Stage Heart Failure pp 41–59Cite as

Older Destination Therapy Patient Selection

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Portions of this chapter were presented at the 29th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, April 2009, Paris, France and the 31st Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, April 2011, San Diego, California, USA. The abovementioned abstracts were published by Adamson et al. (J Am Coll Cardiol. 57(25):2487–95, 2011).

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    Shunei Kyo

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Adamson, R.M., Dembitksy, W.P. (2014). Older Destination Therapy Patient Selection. In: Kyo, S. (eds) Ventricular Assist Devices in Advanced-Stage Heart Failure. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54466-1_3

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