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Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2008 The left ventricular assist device was originally designed to be surgically implanted as a bridge to transplantation for patients with chronic end-stage heart failure.
Rady Mohamed Y +3 more
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Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2016 A growing number of patients are undergoing prolonged management of advanced heart failure with the use of continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (LVADs).
Beth T Webber +2 more
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices Are Underutilized [PDF]
Circulation, 2011 Heart failure has become one of the fastest growing cardiovascular diagnoses, with estimates as high as 500 000 new cases per year.1,2 This growth is in part a result of the reductions in death from acute coronary syndromes, increased use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and improved survival with most cardiovascular interventions, which ...
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
Circulation, 2018 Ventricular assist device has rapidly emerged as a durable and safe therapy for end-stage heart failure patients with >22 000 implantations to date. Though originally conceived for bridge-to-transplant indication, significant advancements in medical management as well as technology with arrivals of newer generation devices have improved patient ...
Jason J. Han +2 more
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Physiologic Data-Driven Iterative Learning Control for Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Continuous flow ventricular assist devices (cfVADs) constitute a viable and increasingly used therapy for end-stage heart failure patients. However, they are still operating at a fixed-speed mode that precludes physiological cfVAD response and it is ...
Konstantinos Magkoutas +3 more
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Mechanical Circulatory Support for Right Ventricular Failure
Cardiac Failure Review, 2022 Right ventricular (RV) failure is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, with in-hospital mortality rates estimated as high as 70–75%. RV failure may occur following cardiac surgery in conjunction with left ventricular failure, or may be ...
Ersilia M DeFilippis +5 more
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Current Trends in Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Cardiology Research and Practice, 2011 The shortage of appropriate donor organs and the expanding pool of patients waiting for heart transplantation have led to growing interest in alternative strategies, particularly in mechanical circulatory support.
Jens Garbade +3 more
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Right Ventricular Lead Dysfunction Post LVAD Implantation
Graduate Medical Education Research Journal, 2020 Mentor: Faris Khan Program: Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease Type: Original Research Background: The use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), both as bridge to cardiac transplantation as well as destination therapy, has ...
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelhalim-Selim +5 more
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An Up-to-Date Literature Review on Ventricular Assist Devices Experience in Pediatric Hearts
Life, 2022 Ventricular assist devices (VAD) have gained popularity in the pediatric population during recent years, as more and more children require a heart transplant due to improved palliation methods, allowing congenital heart defect patients and children with ...
Ștefana Maria Moisă +10 more
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Annals of Pediatric CardiologyEnd-stage heart failure due to left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) poses unique challenges for ventricular assist device implantation, like inflow cannula obstruction due to trabeculations. We report a case of an 11-year-old boy with LVNC who underwent
Komarakshi R. Balakrishnan +4 more
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