Myocardial recovery in children supported with a durable ventricular assist device-a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A small percentage of paediatric patients supported with a ventricular assist device (VAD) can have their device explanted following myocardial recovery. The goal of this systematic review is to summarize the current literature on the clinical course in these children after weaning.

Methods

A systematic literature search was performed on 27 May 2022 using Embase, Medline ALL, Web of Science Core Collection, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Google Scholar to include all literature on paediatric patients supported by a durable VAD during the last decade. Overlapping study cohorts and registry-based studies were filtered out.

Results

Thirty-seven articles were included. Eighteen of them reported on the incidence of recovery in cohort studies,

SUBMITTER: Rohde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560320 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature