Pathological insights into persistent mitral regurgitation following continuous flow left ventricular assist device implantation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
• ² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
• ⁴ AdventHealth Transplant Institute, AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando, Florida.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine and Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• ⁶ Department of Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas-Houston, Houston, Texas; Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: keshava.rajagopal@uth.tmc.edu.