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Article History

Received: 3 December 2017

Accepted: 12 April 2018

First Online: 30 April 2018

Compliance with Ethical Standards

: This study received no funding. All of the authors involved in this study declare that he/she has no conflict of interest. This was a retrospective chart review of patients receiving standard of care therapy. Informed consent for procedures performed (pLVAD and Swan-Ganz catheter placement) was obtained prior to the procedure from the patient or designated health care proxy. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.