Background: Our institutional policy is to continue centrifugal-flow ventricular assist device support for 3 months or more without activation on the transplant wait-list for physical recovery and assessment of possible myocardial recovery. We evaluated our single-institutional outcomes with centrifugal-flow ventricular assist device support in children.Methods: Prospectively collected outcomes data in consecutive patients aged 18 years or less with centrifugal-flow ventricular assist device support were reviewed.

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