%0 Journal Article %T Left ventricular assist device exchange: the Toronto General Hospital experience %A Filio Billia %A Hideki Tsubota %A Mitesh V. Badiwala %A Robert J. Cusimano %A Roberto V.P. Ribeiro %A Terrence M. Yau %A Vivek Rao %A William E. Stansfield %J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery". %D 2017 %R 10.1503/cjs.011316 %X As support times for left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) become longer, several complications requiring device exchange may occur. To our knowledge, this is the first Canadian report regarding implantable LVAD exchange %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529156/