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Mechanical Circulatory Support in Women [PDF]
Journal of Cardiology, 2021 A number of devices can now provide mechanical circulatory support (MCS) to patients with acute cardiogenic shock (CS) and chronic end-stage heart failure (HF). Women differ from men in pathophysiology and natural history of CS and HF, and are usually sicker at admission.
Sandeep Dayanand +2 more
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Mechanical Circulatory Support [PDF]
Circulation: Heart Failure, 2008 Received March 26, 2008; accepted June 5, 2008. The development of durable mechanical circulatory support systems paralleled the expansion of cardiac transplantation. The National Institutes of Health sponsored grants in the 1980s to develop implantable left heart assist systems; 20 years later, they contracted for a national registry, the ...
James Kirklin, David C Naftel
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Kidney Function Trajectories With Mechanical Circulatory Support [PDF]
Kidney International ReportsIntroduction: Adverse long-term kidney outcomes with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are common but little understood. Creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is used clinically in this setting; however, it is of uncertain ...
Carl P. Walther +6 more
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Mechanical circulatory support in children
Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2022 Miguel Abecasis
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Mechanical Circulatory Support [PDF]
Interventional Cardiology Clinics, 2021 Abstract The definition of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) refers to a group of mechanical devices which can be added to the physiological circulation providing support or replacement of the heart and/or the lungs. This allows adequate blood flow and oxygenation in situations where pharmaceutical support is insufficient. To establish MCS we have
Jérôme Jungschleger +2 more
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Mechanical circulatory support in failing single-ventricle physiology [PDF]
JHLT OpenThe use of ventricular assist device (VAD) therapy for advanced heart failure in infants and children with single-ventricle (SV) congenital heart disease (CHD) has expanded rapidly.
Ryan L. Kobayashi, MD +1 more
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Single-Center Experience With Protocolized Treatment of Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 PurposeBecause of the current lack of evidence-based antimicrobial treatment guidelines, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) infections are often treated according to local insights.
Nelianne J. Verkaik +11 more
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Mechanical circulatory support [PDF]
Organogenesis, 2011 Currently, almost five million Americans and 23 million people worldwide are living with congestive heart failure (CHF), with 2 million new cases diagnosed each year. The etiology is mostly ischemic, idiopathic, or viral, and more than $36 billion is spent each year on the care of congestive heart failure patients.
Deborah J, Kozik, Mark D, Plunkett
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly common across the heart failure population. Right ventricular failure (RVF) is a feared complication that can occur in the early post-operative phase or during the outpatient follow-up.
Eduard Rodenas-Alesina +10 more
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Mechanical circulatory support in the UK [PDF]
BMJ, 2007 In June the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published welcome but bewildering guidelines for short term circulatory support with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) as a bridge to cardiac transplantation or recovery.1 Welcome because the guidelines will support funding of these devices but bewildering because few, if ...
Stephen, Westaby, Philip, Poole-Wilson
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