Left ventricular assist devices: let's move toward better quality of extended life, away from hospital

Affiliations

• ¹ Emergency Department, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• ² Cardiology and Intensive Care Unit, Nippon Medical School Musashi-Kosugi Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan.
• ³ INSERM UMR-S 942, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), CIBERCV, UDC, A Coruña, Spain.
• ⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Saint Louis and Lariboisière University Hospitals, Paris, France.
• ⁶ University Paris Diderot, Paris, France.