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Pulmonary artery pulsatility index predicts prolonged inotrope/ pulmonary vasodilator use after implantation of continuous flow left ventricular assist device

Varun Aggarwal^1,2, Sebastian C. Tume³, Marco Rodriguez¹, Iki Adachi⁴, Antonio G. Cabrera¹, Hari Tunuguntla¹, Athar M. Qureshi¹

1 The Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
2 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Masonic Children's Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
3 Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
4 Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

* Corresponding Author: Sebastian C. Tume, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, 6621 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Email: