Survival outcomes with heart transplant vs. LVAD may depend on wait-list time

In patients with advanced heart failure, left ventricular assist device implantation was linked to better 2-year survival than heart transplantation when wait-list time was accounted for, researchers reported at Heart Failure 2026. However, the transplantation group had a higher survival rate at 2 years than the LVAD group when survival was measured from the time of treatment, according to the