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Left Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2017
Audience: The audience for this classic team-based learning (cTBL) session is emergency medicine residents, faculty, and students; although this topic is applicable to internal medicine and family medicine residents. Introduction: A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical circulatory support device that can be placed in critically-ill ...
Narajeenron, Khuansiri, Hoonpongsimanot, Wirachin Ying, Boysen Osborn, Megan   +2 more
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Right ventricular failure after left ventricular assist device implantation: a review of the literature

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2021
Right ventricular failure (RVF) following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation remains a major complication which may significantly impair patient outcome. The genesis of RVF is, however, multifactorial, and the mechanisms underlying such a
V. Lo Coco, M. D. De Piero, Giulio Massimi, Giovanni Chiarini, G. Raffa, M. Kowalewski, J. Maessen, R. Lorusso   +7 more
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Ventricular assist devices

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2013
Despite major advances in the treatment of heart failure over the past two decades, improving the natural history of this condition, heart failure continues to be a major source of morbidity and mortality. Although availability of heart donor for transplantation has declined over the past several years, innovations in ventricular assist device (VAD ...
TARANTINI, GIUSEPPE, FRACCARO, CHIARA, NAPODANO, MASSIMO, BUJA, PAOLO, TARZIA, VINCENZO, ISABELLA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, GEROSA, GINO, ILICETO, SABINO   +7 more
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Surgical outcomes of bridge-to-bridge therapy with extracorporeal left ventricular assist device for acute myocardial infarction in cardiogenic shock

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2022
Background Extracorporeal left ventricular assist device is often required for acute myocardial infarction patients in cardiogenic shock when temporary mechanical circulatory support fails to provide hemodynamic stabilization.
Chiho Tokunaga, Atsushi Iguchi, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Fumiya Chubachi, Yuto Hori, Akitoshi Takazawa, Jun Hayashi, Toshihisa Asakura, Akihiro Yoshitake   +8 more
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Experience with percutaneous right ventricular support in the early post-left ventricular assist device implantation period (clinical case report and literature reviews)

Вестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов, 2023
Implantable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a state-of-the-art treatment for adults and children with end-stage heart failure. The early and late period after LVAD implantation can be severely complicated.
V. N. Poptsov, E. A. Spirina, D. V. Ryabtsev, A. K. Solodovnikova, A. S. Epremian   +4 more
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Association of Use of an Intravascular Microaxial Left Ventricular Assist Device vs Intra-aortic Balloon Pump With In-Hospital Mortality and Major Bleeding Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated by cardiogenic shock is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Although intravascular microaxial left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) provide greater hemodynamic support as ...
S. Dhruva, J. Ross, B. Mortazavi, N. Hurley, H. Krumholz, J. Curtis, Alyssa Berkowitz, F. Masoudi, J. Messenger, C. Parzynski, Che G. Ngufor, S. Girotra, A. Amin, N. Shah, N. Desai   +14 more
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Ventricular Assist Device-Specific Infections

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021
Ventricular assist device (VAD)-specific infections, in particular, driveline infections, are a concerning complication of VAD implantation that often results in significant morbidity and even mortality.
Y. Qu, A. Peleg, D. McGiffin
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Predicting the Risk of Right Ventricular Failure in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Circulation: Heart Failure, 2020
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Right ventricular failure (RVF) is a cause of major morbidity and mortality after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.
C. Frankfurter, M. Molinero, J. Vishram-Nielsen, F. Foroutan, S. Mak, V. Rao, F. Billia, A. Orchanian‐Cheff, A. Alba   +8 more
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Association of Clinical Outcomes With Left Ventricular Assist Device Use by Bridge to Transplant or Destination Therapy Intent

JAMA cardiology, 2020
Key Points Question In patients with advanced heart failure, do outcomes with left ventricular assist device implantation differ by the initial intended goal of therapy as a bridge to transplant or destination therapy?
D. Goldstein, Y. Naka, D. Horstmanshof, A. Ravichandran, J. Schroder, J. Ransom, A. Itoh, N. Uriel, J. Cleveland, N. Raval, R. Cogswell, E. Suarez, B. Lowes, Gene Kim, P. Bonde, F. Sheikh, P. Sood, D. Farrar, M. Mehra   +18 more
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A Fully Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device — Final Report

New England Journal of Medicine, 2019
Background In two interim analyses of this trial, patients with advanced heart failure who were treated with a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal‐flow left ventricular assist device were less likely to have pump thrombosis or nondisabling stroke ...
M. Mehra, N. Uriel, Y. Naka, J. Cleveland, M. Yuzefpolskaya, C. Salerno, M. Walsh, C. Milano, C. Patel, S. Hutchins, J. Ransom, G. Ewald, A. Itoh, N. Raval, S. Silvestry, R. Cogswell, R. John, A. Bhimaraj, B. Bruckner, B. Lowes, J. Um, V. Jeevanandam, G. Sayer, A. Mangi, E. Molina, F. Sheikh, K. Aaronson, F. Pagani, W. Cotts, A. Tatooles, Ashok Babu, D. Chomsky, J. Katz, Paul B. Tessmann, D. Dean, A. Krishnamoorthy, J. Chuang, Ia Topuria, P. Sood, D. Goldstein   +39 more
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