3D printing is a transformative technology in congenital heart disease [PDF]
Survival in congenital heart disease has steadily improved since 1938, when Dr. Robert Gross successfully ligated for the first time a patent ductus arteriosus in a 7-year-old child.
Anwar +117 more
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Magnetically Active Cardiac Patches as an Untethered, Non‐Blood Contacting Ventricular Assist Device
Patients suffering from heart failure often require circulatory support using ventricular assist devices (VADs). However, most existing VADs provide nonpulsatile flow, involve direct contact between the blood flow and the device's lumen and moving ...
Hongri Gu +5 more
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A Case of HeartMate 3 Outflow Graft Twisting with Extraluminal Thrombosis: Is Computed Tomography Angiography Helpful? [PDF]
Twists in the outflow graft of the HeartMateTM 3 device (Abbott) have recently been described as a sporadic, late complication. We present a case with a unique combination of external compression of the HeartMate 3 outflow graft by a surgical scar ...
Guglin, Maya +3 more
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Torrential Mitral Regurgitation After Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair
A patient with severe mitral regurgitation and chronic systolic heart failure taking inotropic support at home presents for transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair, complicated by torrential mitral regurgitation from damaged mitral leaflets ...
Jonathan Blossom, MD +9 more
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With advances in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, several newer implantable cardiac devices have become common in the surgical population. Multichamber pacemakers, implanted cardiac defibrillators and ventricular assist devices are frequent in ...
Murali Chakravarthy +2 more
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We report a case of giant cell myocarditis in a 76-year-old patient managed with combined immunosuppression and biventricular intravascular microaxial blood pumps. This case highlights a feasible approach for managing such patients who are not candidates
Janet I. Ma, MD +3 more
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Ventricular Assist Devices and Increased Blood Product Utilization for Cardiac Transplantation
The purpose of this study was to examine whether blood product utilization, one‐year cell‐mediated rejection rates, and mid‐term survival significantly differ for ventricular assist device (VAD patients compared to non‐VAD (NVAD) patients following ...
M. Stone +8 more
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Cardiac Contractility Modulation as bridge to recovery in a patient with advanced heart failure evaluated for left ventricular assist devices: a case report and review of literature. [PDF]
Menichetti F +6 more
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Rotary mechanical circulatory support systems
A detailed survey of the current trends and recent advances in rotary mechanical circulatory support systems is presented in this paper. Rather than clinical reports, the focus is on technological aspects of these rehabilitating devices as a reference ...
Bonnell, Mark +3 more
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Mechanical chest-compression devices: current and future roles [PDF]
Purpose of review: It is recognised that the quality of CPR is an important predictor of outcome from cardiac arrest yet studies consistently demonstrate that the quality of CPR performed in real life is frequently sub-optimal.
Brace, Samantha J. +2 more
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