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Mandeep Mehra

Mandeep Mehra

Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, Boston; Harvard Medical School professor specializing in advanced heart failure and transplantation.

Sep 28, 2026

ESC Cardio Talk

ESC Cardio Talk

Journal editorial: An optimally engineered pump, yet an incomplete therapy: biology, residual risk, and the future of LVAD care

Sep 28 · 8m

Milica Vukicevic
Milica VukicevicHOST
1:07
And the key findings?
Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep MehraGUEST
1:10
Well, from my standpoint, three things stand out.
Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep MehraGUEST
1:13
The first observation is that recovery is not rare.
Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep MehraGUEST
1:16
It has just been poorly defined.
Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep MehraGUEST
1:19
Most patients had some degree of improvement, particularly in the first year.
Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep MehraGUEST
1:24
The second is that recovery is graded and not binary.
Mandeep Mehra
Mandeep MehraGUEST
1:28
It's not a yes or no. We're not talking about recover and explant only versus no recovery.
Milica Vukicevic
Milica VukicevicHOST
5:18
Walk us through them.

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