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Left Ventricular Assistant Device in End Stage Heart Failure as A Step of Heart Transplantation Center: A Case Report [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2023
With increasing prevalence of patients with advanced heart failure (AHF), increasing amount of readmission frequencies, duration of maximum medical therapy, and the 50% mortality during one-year, Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) are considered to ...
Yasser Mubarak
doaj   +1 more source

Malaria in Nonimmune Travelers [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Background: With the current increase of international travel to tropical endemic areas, the incidence of malaria being imported into nonendemic countries has increased significantly.
Jelinek, Thomas   +2 more
core   +1 more source

35. With full antiplatelet and anticoagulant coverage: Still aortic root and left main coronary artery thrombosis can occur early post left ventricular assist device implantation

open access: yesJournal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2016
We describe a case of 39 years old male underwent continuous flow LVAD implantation (HeartWare) HVAD as destination therapy (DT) for severe left ventricular dysfunction ,moderate right ventricular dysfunction and severe pulmonary hypertension , presented
M. alassal
doaj   +1 more source

End-of-life discontinuation of destination therapy with cardiac and ventilatory support medical devices: physician-assisted death or allowing the patient to die?

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2010
Background Bioethics and law distinguish between the practices of "physician-assisted death" and "allowing the patient to die." Discussion Advances in biotechnology have allowed medical devices to be used as destination therapy that are designed for the ...
Rady Mohamed Y, Verheijde Joseph L
doaj   +1 more source

Heart failure risk scores in advanced heart failure patients: insights from the LEVO‐D registry

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, 2023
Aims The prevalence of advanced heart failure (HF) is increasing due to the growing number of patients with HF and their better treatment and survival.
Pau Codina   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

What Should We Learn From Early Hemodialysis Allocation About How We Should Be Using ECMO? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Early hemodialysis allocation deliberations should inform our current considerations of what constitutes reasonable uses of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
bosslet, Gabriel T., Gutteridge, Daniel
core   +1 more source

Mechanical Ventricular Assistance as Destination Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure: Has it become a first line therapy?

open access: yesFrontiers in Surgery, 2015
Patients with end-stage heart failure have poor quality of life and prognosis.Therapeutic options are scarce and not available for all:only few patients can be transplanted and several medical and surgical strategies have shown limited ability to ...
Massimo eBonacchi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adipose-derived stem cells: a review of osteogenesis differentiation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Second part of manuscript based on osteogenesis differentiation of stem cells. Bones are highly regenerative organs but there are still many problems with therapy of large bone defects.
Mazurek, Urszula   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Occupational Therapy’s Role with Ventricular Assist Devices and the Promotion of Travel Protocols [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
An option for individuals diagnosed with end-stage heart failure is to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD). In 2006, Shepherd and Wilding produced an article regarding occupational therapy’s role during the VAD process as they anticipated a growing
Chandra, Natasha, Suplicki, Linda
core   +1 more source

Travelers’ diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms among Boston-area international travelers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
INTRODUCTION: Travelers' diarrhea (TD) and non-TD gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common among international travelers. In a study of short-term travelers from Switzerland to developing countries, the most common symptom experienced was severe ...
Barnett, Elizabeth D.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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