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ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2021

Driveline Features as Risk Factor for Infection in Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Meta-Analysis and Experimental Tests.

Melanie Kranzl, Martin Stoiber, Anne-Kristin Schaefer, Julia Riebandt, Dominik Wiedemann, Christiane Marko, Günther Laufer, Daniel Zimpfer, Heinrich Schima, Thomas Schlöglhofer

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Article in Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Low Driveline Infection Rates in Patients With a Novel Fully Magnetically Levitated Ventricular Assist Device.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2025
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  9. Recent Developments in Ventricular Assist Device Therapy.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Melanie KranzlDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Martin StoiberCenter for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Anne-Kristin SchaeferDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Julia RiebandtDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Dominik WiedemannDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Christiane MarkoDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Günther LauferDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Daniel ZimpferDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Heinrich SchimaDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Thomas SchlöglhoferDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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driveline infectionleft ventricular assist device (LVAD)mechanical circulatory support (MCS)mechanical featuresrisk factors

Identifiers

PMID34977190
PMCPMC8716483

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