Perioperative Enteral Nutrition After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Objective: We assessed what predicts nutritional adequacy at day 14 following implantation of left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Method: We retrospectively reviewed the cases of 97 adult patients who underwent LVAD implantation at our institution from June 2011 to June 2016. We divided the patients into two groups based on the administered enteral nutrition (EN) calories on post-operative day (POD) 14: the EN calories of group SEN (sufficient enteral nutrition) were >80% of their total target calories, or the EN calories of group IEN (insufficient enteral nutrition) were