HeartMate II System Controller Failure Presenting as Driveline Fault With Repeated Pump Stoppages

Circ Heart Fail. 2019 Jul;12(7):e005738. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118.005738. Epub 2019 Jun 19.

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Cardiology Section, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO (K.M.F.).
² Department of Medicine, Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (A.B., W.K.C.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora.
³ University of Colorado Health, Aurora (C.P.).
⁴ Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (J.C.C., J.D.P.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora.

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Keywords: clinical protocols; equipment failure; heart failure; hospitalization; unnecessary procedures.

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