Pediatric Application of the Thoratec CentriMag BiVAD as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation

Hirata, Yasutaka MD
Charette, Kevin CCP
Mosca, Ralph S. MD
Quaegebeur, Jan M. MD
Chen, Jonathan M. MD

^aDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
^bDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Joan and Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Address for reprints: Yasutaka Hirata, MD, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (E-mail: [email protected]).

Received for publication Nov 1, 2007; revisions received Feb 29, 2008; accepted for publication May 4, 2008

Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery 136(5):p 1386-1387, November 2008.