Failure to Improve Renal Function Following VAD Placement Predicts Renal Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease Following Cardiac Transplant

Improved renal function following ventricular assist device (VAD) placement is seen in some, but not all VAD recipients. Failure to improve may indicate enduring renal injury. We hypothesized that VAD implantation results in improved renal function in the majority of pediatric patients with heart failure and that failure to improve would predict poor renal outcomes after heart transplantation (HT).