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This study aimed to investigate device postimplantation infectious complications and their pathogenic profile.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Data were analyzed from patient charts involving 27 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy who underwent left VAD implantation at a leading tertiary care center in Turkey.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The study included 17 boys and ten girls with a median age of 12.22\u00a0years (range 17\u00a0months to 18\u00a0years). Nineteen patients were diagnosed with idiopathic, and three were diagnosed with familial dilated cardiomyopathy. Twenty\u2010two out of 27 subjects (%81.48) developed 80 infection episodes in total. The most common type of left VAD\u2010specific infection was the exit site of the driveline. Infected patients with left VAD had a significantly prolonged hospitalization compared with the patients without infection (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.014). Infection\u2010induced pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) admission was higher in patients with fungal infection(<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.023). Gram\u2010positive staphylococci were the most commonly isolated bacterial pathogens, followed by Gram\u2010negative bacteria. Five patients developed fungal infections. None of the fungal infection patients underwent transplantation(<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.035). Seven deaths occurred in our study group. All deaths were in the infected group. Mortality was associated with the presence of multidrug\u2010resistant Gram\u2010negative bacterial infections (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.015), an increased number of infection episodes (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.003), and hospitalization due to infection (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0.003).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Ventricular assist device\u2010related infections were frequent among our study patients. The predominantly isolated agents were Gram\u2010positive bacterial pathogens. However, the emergence of relatively high rate of Gram\u2010negative bacterial and fungal infections was associated with mortality before the transplantation. 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