Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Recovery: Single Center Experience of Successful Device Explantation.

Continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVAD) have been shown to enhance reverse remodeling and myocardial recovery in certain patients allowing for device removal. We sought to analyze the characteristics and describe outcomes of patients who underwent CF-LVAD explantation at a large academic center. We retrospectively identified all patients who underwent CF-LVAD explants due to recovery from 2006 to 2019.