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Figure 1 Change in serum creatinine with ventricular assist device (VAD) placement in VAD patients who died early (<1 month), late (>1 month), and those who survived to cardiac transplantation. The three patients who died early were on continuous venovenous hemodialysis at the time of death. TX = transplantation.
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