Intermittent inotropic support with levosimendan in advanced heart failure as destination therapy: The LEVO‐D registry [PDF]
Advanced heart failure; Inotropes; Palliative careInsuficiencia cardiaca avanzada; Inotropos; Cuidados paliativosInsuficiència cardíaca avançada; Inòtrops; Cures pal·liativesAim Patients with advanced heart failure (AHF) who are not candidates to ...
Méndez Fernández, Ana Belén +87 more
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8 years boy, a case of dilated cardiomyopathy with severe biventricular dysfunction awaiting heart transplantation, sustained cardiac arrest. He was initiated on central ECMO, stabilised and then heart transplantation was performed. In the immediate post-
Babu Ezhumalai +2 more
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The COACH risk engine: a multistate model for predicting survival and hospitalization in patients with heart failure [PDF]
Aims: Several models for predicting the prognosis of heart failure (HF) patients have been developed, but all of them focus on a single outcome variable, such as all-cause mortality.
Postmus, Douwe; id_orcid +45 more
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CardioMEMS Implantation Using Gadolinium-based Contrast Agent: A Case Report
A 57-year-old woman with New York Heart Association Class III heart failure requiring multiple hospitalisations over the previous year presented for CardioMEMS implantation. Because of the patient’s allergy history of anaphylaxis to iodine-based contrast
Aniket S Rali +2 more
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Cannabis Use and Heart Transplantation: Disparities and Opportunities to Improve Outcomes [PDF]
Heart transplantation (HT) remains the optimal therapy for many patients with advanced heart failure. Use of substances of potential abuse has historically been a contraindication to HT.
Ilonze, Onyedika J. +6 more
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Transendocardial CD34 Cell Transplantation in Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy
Noncompaction cardiomyopathy is a rare congenital heart disorder characterized by an arrest of the myocardial compaction process. This results in the altered formation of coronary microvessels with a resulting decrease in myocardial perfusion ...
Andraz Cerar +7 more
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The dominant left ventricular assist device: lessons from an era
The production and distribution of the HeartWare ventricular assist device has come to an abrupt end, but with this end comes the opportunity to reflect upon lessons learned from its lifespan.
Amit Alam +2 more
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Brachial pulse pressure in acute heart failure. Results of the Heart Failure Registry [PDF]
[Abstract] Aims To investigate the still uncertain independent prognostic impact of pulse pressure (PP) in acute heart failure (HF), in particular across the left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) phenotypes, and the potential contribution of PP in ...
Macarie, Cezar, +40 more
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Management of Advanced Heart Failure [PDF]
Case presentation: A 65-year-old man with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy is referred to an advanced heart failure center for heart transplant evaluation. He presented with decompensated heart failure 2 years earlier. At that time, an echocardiogram demonstrated a left ventricular ejection fraction of 25% with a left ventricular end-diastolic ...
Michelle M, Kittleson +1 more
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Impella 5.5 in left ventricular noncompaction syndrome as bridge to heart transplant
Background: Left ventricular non-compaction syndrome (LVNC) is an uncommon congenital disease characterized by prominent trabeculations and deep inter-trabecular recesses of the left ventricle wall.
Shriya Sharma +7 more
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