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Allegheny General Hospital Heart Specialists Among the First in the Country to Expand Use of Left Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge to Recovery
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Cardiothoracic surgeons at Allegheny General Hospital, a part of Allegheny Health Network, are exploring a new indication for left ventricular assist devices as a bridge to recovery from heart failure after performing an explant procedure on a 21-year old patient from western Pennsylvania.
Manreet Kanwar, MD, is an AHN cardiologist who specializes in heart failure; she is also a board member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
“Based on our team’s leading expertise with LVAD technology, we were confident that with the proper pharmacological plan in place, paired with close monitoring, an LVAD could appropriately off-load her left ventricle, allow her heart to heal and put her heart failure into a form of remission.”
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