A Single-Institutional Experience with 36 Children Smaller Than 5 Kilograms Supported with the Berlin Heart Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) over 12 Years: Comparison of Patients with Biventricular versus Functionally Univentricular Circulation.

Mark S BleiweisJoseph PhilipGiles J PeekYuriy StukovGregory M JanelleAndrew D PitkinKevin J SullivanConnie S NixonOmar M SharafDan NealJeffrey Phillip Jacobs

Published in: World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery (2023)

Pulsatile VAD facilitates bridge to transplantation in neonates and infants weighing <5 kg; however, survival after VAD insertion in these small patients is less in those with univentricular circulation in comparison to those with biventricular circulation.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
heart failure
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
young adults
left ventricular
cardiac resynchronization therapy
atrial fibrillation
stem cells
bone marrow
low birth weight
patient reported outcomes
clinical evaluation
catheter ablation