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Predicting Bleeding And Thrombosis Complications In Patients With Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Kyle Zacholski, William Kuan, Justin Mccann Mccann, Aric Schadler, Aaron Cook, Sara Parli, Adam Sieg
Predicting Bleeding And Thrombosis Complications In Patients With Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Kyle Zacholski, William Kuan, Justin Mccann Mccann, Aric Schadler, Aaron Cook, Sara Parli, Adam Sieg
The VAD Journal
Background: Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has been proven to relieve heart failure symptoms and improve survival, but is not devoid of bleeding and/or thrombotic complications. Risk stratification tools have been utilized in other cardiovascular disease populations to estimate the risk of bleeding and thrombosis with and without anticoagulation, including the HAS-BLED, HEMORR2HAGES, CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc models. The study objective was to evaluate the predictive value of available risk models for bleeding and thrombotic complications in patients with an LVAD within one year of implantation.
Methods: This was a retrospective, single-center analysis …