“…Ibeh and colleagues used the US National Inpatient Sample to identify 794 of 1,633,234 acute ischemic stroke hospitalizations which occurred in patients with LVADs. 28 Over half (61%) were post-operative. Although post-stroke in-hospital mortality was higher among patients with LVADs (23.3% vs 7.23%), on multivariable analysis, only post-operative LVAD patients experienced a greater odds of in-hospital death after MT, while patients with pre-existing LVADs demonstrated no difference in post-MT mortality (aOR = 1.06; 95% CI, 0.29-3.91) or in odds of discharge home after MT (aOR = 0.63, CI, 0.17-2.32).…”