title: Bud Frazier's 1,000 th implantation of a ventricular assist device.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Slaughter
mesh_terms: D001243:Assisted Circulation / Q000266:history / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000266:history*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000601:surgery*; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013781:Texas