What Did We Learn about VADs in 2018?

Abstract

In this paper, we summarized the most interesting and important, from our standpoint, publications from 2018. There may be some slight overlapping with the end of 2017 because some papers were published online first. For the second time this year, we added a section on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) which primarily addresses new developments in veno-arterial (VA) ECMO.