Current treatment for LVAD associated GI bleeding is aimed at identifying the location of bleeding and treatment with blood product transfusion, cryoprecipitate for vWS, Desmopressin for platelet dysfunction, and interventions through Interventional Radiology (IR) and surgery. In addition to the obvious costs and increase in morbidity and mortality associated with the above therapies, patients who receive multiple transfusions develop antibodies and thus become more difficult to transplant. Thus a vicious cycle develops.