Surgical approaches to LVAD deactivation: Lessons from RESTAGE-HF.

I. Nickel¹, E. Birks², H. Li¹, M. Slaughter³, E. Rame⁴, B. Lowes⁵, S. Patel⁶, D. Goldstein⁶, S. Maybaum⁷, J. Um⁵, C. Cunningham⁸, J. Trivedi³, P. Atluri⁹, R. Starling¹⁰, J. Stehlik¹, S. Drakos¹¹, C. Selzman^12
1University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah ²University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky ³University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky ⁴Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ⁵University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska ⁶Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York ⁷Northwell, New Hyde Park, New York ⁸Clinical Trials Unit, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky ⁹University of Pennsylvania, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ¹⁰Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio ¹¹University of Utah, Department of Internal Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah ¹²The University of Utah School of Medicine, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Salt Lake City, Utah