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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
Khuansiri Narajeenron +2 more
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Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
, 2019 Heart failure is a common and debilitating disease with about 40 million affected worldwide. While there has been some improvement in the optimal medical therapy over the last two decades there is a worldwide stagnation in the number of heart ...
Stephan Schueler, Faruk Özalp
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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 ...
Sandeep Chauhan
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Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy [PDF]
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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Pressure, Flow Rate and Operating Speed Characteristics of a Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device During Varying Speed Support [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2020 Hydraulic performance of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices depends on their pressure head and flow rate relations. Hydraulic characteristics of these devices are expressed by pressure head and flow rate loops in a pulsatile environment as ...
Selim Bozkurt
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Hemostatic complications associated with ventricular assist devices [PDF]
Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2019 Hemostatic complications are common in patients with ventricular assist devices. The pathophysiologic mechanisms that lead to dysregulated hemostasis involve complex interactions between device surface, sheer stress, and blood flow. These factors lead to
Talal Hilal +2 more
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Choosing Between Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Biventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
Cardiac Failure Review, 2019 Right ventricular failure following left ventricular assist devices implantation is a serious complication associated with high mortality. In patients with or at high risk of developing right ventricular failure, biventricular support is recommended ...
Sajad Shehab, Christopher S Hayward
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The Inflammatory Response to Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 The therapeutic use of ventricular assist devices (VADs) for end-stage heart failure (HF) patients who are ineligible for transplant has increased steadily in the last decade.
Gemma Radley +6 more
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Effects of cardiac rehabilitation in patients with ventricular assist devices: a scoping review [PDF]
The Journal of ExtraCorporeal TechnologyIntroduction: Ventricular assist devices represent a treatment option for patients with advanced heart failure, offering control over various haemodynamic variables.
Portuguez Jaramillo Nelson Esteban +4 more
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Iron Deficiency in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
Cardiac Failure ReviewIron deficiency is a common and independent predictor of adverse outcomes in patients with heart failure. The implications of iron deficiency in patients implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) are less established. This review recaps data
William Herrik Nielsen, Finn Gustafsson
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