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Mechanical circulatory support for destination therapy. [PDF]

, 2016
Patients with chronic heart failure who are not eligible for heart transplant and whose life expectancy depends mainly on the heart disease may benefit from mechanical circulatory support.
Hullin, R., Tozzi, P.
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Considerations of valvular heart disease in children with ventricular assist devices

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
Ventricular assist devices have become a valuable tool in the treatment of heart failure in children. The use of ventricular assist devices has decreased mortality in children with end-stage heart failure awaiting transplant.
Ming-Sing Si, Vikram Sood, Reshma Biniwale, David Peng, David Peng   +4 more
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Inpatient Specialist Palliative Care in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD): A Retrospective Case Series

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
BackgroundRepeat hospitalizations, complications, and psychosocial burdens are common in patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). Specialist palliative care (sPC) involvement supports patients during decision-making until end-of-life. In the
Theresa Tenge, Theresa Tenge, David Santer, Daniel Schlieper, Manuela Schallenburger, Jacqueline Schwartz, Stefan Meier, Payam Akhyari, Otmar Pfister, Silke Walter, Silke Walter, Sandra Eckstein, Friedrich Eckstein, Martin Siegemund, Martin Siegemund, Jan Gaertner, Jan Gaertner, Martin Neukirchen, Martin Neukirchen   +18 more
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Heart Rate Variability: A possible machine learning biomarker for mechanical circulatory device complications and heart recovery [PDF]

, 2020
Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number one cause of death in the United States, with heart failure patients expected to increase to \u3e8 million by 2030.
Aras, Shravan, Khalpey, Zain, Lin, Theodore   +2 more
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Carcinoid Crisis–Induced Acute Systolic Heart Failure

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
Carcinoid crisis is a life-threatening manifestation of carcinoid syndrome characterized by profound autonomic instability in the setting of catecholamine release from stress, tumor manipulation, or anesthesia.
Manoj V. Maddali, MD, Catherine Chiu, MD, Emily R. Cedarbaum, MD, Vidhushei Yogeswaran, MD, Mohamed Seedahmed, MD, Wendy Smith, MD, Emily Bergsland, MD, Nicholas Fidelman, MD, Jamie L.W. Kennedy, MD   +8 more
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Experimental Investigation of the Performance of an Innovative Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Device—Proof of Concept

Applied Sciences, 2023
This paper presents the results of experimental performance of an innovative left ventricular assist device working on a specially designed test stand. The introduced invention is mainly applied for supporting the heart in patients with end-stage heart ...
Krzysztof Tesch, Ryszard Jasinski, Leszek Dabrowski, Jan Rogowski   +3 more
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Cost-effectiveness of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for patients with advanced heart failure : analysis of the British NHS Bridge to Transplant (BTT) program [PDF]

, 2001
Background: A previous cost-effectiveness analysis showed that bridge to transplant (BTT) with early design left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for advanced heart failure was more expensive than medical management while appearing less beneficial ...
Aileen Clarke, Ruth Pulikottil-Jacob, Martin Connock, Gaurav Suri, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Nicholas R. Banner, Paul Sutcliffe, Aaronson, Garber, Weinstein, Slaughter, Temple, MacGowan, Clegg, Clegg, Sharples, Sharples, Sharples, Slaughter, Sharples, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Gohler, Rogers, Personal social services research unit, Briggs, Levy, Schaffer, Strueber, Rose, Stevenson, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Moreno, Pagani   +33 more
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Risk Factors for Development of Stroke in Patients With Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support as Destination Therapy [PDF]

Texas Heart Institute Journal
Background: Continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly used as destination therapy. Although postimplantation stroke rates have been described in the context of bridge-to-transplant or mixed cohorts, stroke development is ...
Ioana B. Florea, MD, MPHS, Nadia H. Bakir, MD, Meghan O. Kelly, MD, Joel D. Schilling, MD, PhD, Gregory A. Ewald, MD, Akinobu Itoh, MD, PhD, Marc R. Moon, MD, Spencer J. Melby, MD, Ralph J. Damiano, Jr, MD, Kunal D. Kotkar, MD, Muhammad F. Masood, MD   +10 more
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Effect of Vascular Lumen Reduction on the Performance and Energy Consumption of an Innovative Implantable LVAD

Applied Sciences, 2023
This paper presents the results of a study on the effect of vascular lumen reduction on the performance of an innovative implantable LVAD (left ventricular assist device).
Ryszard Jasinski, Krzysztof Tesch, Leszek Dabrowski, Jan Rogowski   +3 more
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Contemporary outcomes of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices-a systematic review.

Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2021
Background End stage heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and its prevalence is expected to rise with the ageing population. For suitable patients, orthotopic heart transplantation remains the gold standard therapy, however, a ...
N. McNamara, H. Narroway, Michael L. Williams, J. Brookes, J. Farag, D. Cistulli, P. Bannon, S. Marasco, E. Potapov, A. Loforte   +9 more
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