WITHDRAWN: The 1000th VAD, the Great Rivalry, and the Grand Experiment at the Texas Medical Center

The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published, doi:10.1053/j.semtcvs.2014.04.001. The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn.

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