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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2020

Is it Safe for Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices to Undergo Non-Cardiac Surgery?

Rafal Berger, Attila Nemeth, Christoph Salewski, Rodrigo Sandoval Boburg, Metesh Acharya, Alexander Weymann, Konstantin Zhigalov, Bastian Schmack, Michel Pompeu B O Sá, Christian Schlensak and 1 more

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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 49% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Perioperative management and outcomes of hip and knee arthroplasty among heartmate 3 left ventricular assist device recipients.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Rafal BergerDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8245-4457
Attila NemethDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
Christoph SalewskiDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
Rodrigo Sandoval BoburgDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4907-7020
Metesh AcharyaDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK.
Alexander WeymannDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Konstantin ZhigalovDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Bastian SchmackDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany.
Michel Pompeu B O SáDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Pronto Socorro Cardiológico de Pernambuco (PROCAPE), 74970-240 Recife, PE, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-5356-2996
Christian SchlensakDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
Aron-Frederik PopovDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4226-3004
University Children's Hospital Tübingen · DEEssen University Hospital · DEGlenfield Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Heart-Assist DevicesPerioperative CareAnticoagulantsFemaleHeart FailureHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPostoperative ComplicationsRetrospective StudiesSurgical Procedures, OperativeAnticoagulantschronic heart failureleft ventricular assist deviceLVADnon-cardiac surgery

Identifiers

PMID32842512
PMCPMC7559908
OpenAlexW3080696517

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Registered trials

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