title: Early Outcomes With Marginal Donor Hearts Compared With Left Ventricular Assist Device Support in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Could the Cardiac Allocation Score Be the Solution to the Dilemma of Therapy Selection?
authors.affiliation: Department for the Surgical Therapy of End-Stage Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart and Vascular Center Duisburg, Fahrner St 133-135, 47169 Duisburg, Germany. Electronic address: sotirios.spiliopolos@ejk.de.
authors.forename: Sotirios
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spiliopoulos
authors.affiliation: Department for the Surgical Therapy of End-Stage Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart and Vascular Center Duisburg, Fahrner St 133-135, 47169 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Reiner
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Koerfer
authors.affiliation: Department for the Surgical Therapy of End-Stage Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart and Vascular Center Duisburg, Fahrner St 133-135, 47169 Duisburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Gero
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tenderich
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male