[HSF] A Bridge that leads to nowhere?

[Michael Firstenberg]

As we are all doing more and more VAD-bridge to transplants - particularly
in acute/salvage cases - has anyone encountered (which I am sure has
happened) a case where after you put the VAD in and the patient stabilizes,
get better, everything looks great (high fives all around) - only to find
out some obvious contraindication to transplant that was not obvious before
(cancer is the first that comes to mind).  The easy answer is "DT" - but
maybe a little more complex?


michael