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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2026

Anti-Obesity Medications Versus Metabolic Bariatric Surgery as Pathways to Heart Transplant Eligibility in LVAD-Supported Patients: A Narrative Review.

Noah Sicouri, Vanesa Brecher, Vasiliki Androutsopoulou, Maximiliano Brizzio, Prokopis-Andreas Zotos, Massimo Baudo, Serge Sicouri

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Noah SicouriDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Vanesa BrecherDepartment of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-8149-7507
Vasiliki AndroutsopoulouDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, 41110 Larissa, Greece.ORCID 0009-0005-2445-0879
Maximiliano BrizzioDepartment of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA.
Prokopis-Andreas ZotosDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, 41110 Larissa, Greece.
Massimo BaudoDepartment of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3754-6704
Serge SicouriDepartment of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1822-768X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a common and potentially modifiable barrier to heart transplant candidacy in patients supported by a durable left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Approximately 15% of LVAD recipients carry a body mass index (BMI) of 35 kg/m

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bariatric surgerybody mass indexbridge to candidacyGLP-1 receptor agonistheart transplantationleft ventricular assist deviceobesitysemaglutidesleeve gastrectomytransplant listing

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PMID42881951
PMCPMC13665862

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