An interesting two-year report from the MOMENTUM 3 randomized controlled trial comparison of HeartMate 3 and II, the analysis performed by Abbott. Although stroke and reoperation were clearly lower with the latest technology, reflected in the lower LDH measurements, there was bafflingly no improvement in survival.
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Two-Year Outcomes With a Magnetically Levitated Cardiac Pump in Heart Failure
Submitted by: Aristotle Protopapas
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): Mandeep R. Mehra, Daniel J. Goldstein, Nir Uriel, Joseph C. Cleveland, Melana Yuzefpolskaya, Christopher Salerno, Mary N. Walsh, Carmelo A. Milano, Chetan B. Patel, Gregory A. Ewald, Akinobu Itoh, David Dean, Arun Krishnamoorthy, William G. Cotts, Antone J. Tatooles, Ulrich P. Jorde, Brian A. Bruckner, Jerry D. Estep, Valluvan Jeevanandam, Gabriel Sayer, Douglas Horstmanshof, James W. Long, Sanjeev Gulati, Eric R. Skipper, John B. O’Connell, Gerald Heatley, Poornima Sood, and Yoshifumi Naka, for the MOMENTUM 3 Investigators
