%0 Journal Article %T Long-term use of left ventricular assist devices: a report on clinical outcomes %A Carolina Alba %A Farid Foroutan %A Filio Billia %A Jane MacIver %A Sneha Raju %A Vivek Rao %J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery". %D 2017 %R 10.1503/cjs.010016 %X The literature examining clinical outcomes and readmissions during extended (> 1 yr) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support is scarce, particularly in the era of continuous-flow LVADs %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529154/