Long-term ventricular assist devices in current clinical practice [PDF]
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Velicki Lazar, Frazier O.H.
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Heart Failure Anticoagulation Teach-Back Education and Readmissions [PDF]
: Heart failure affects millions of Americans each year. Treatment of advanced heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and left ventricular failure is sometimes treated with implantation of a left-ventricular assist device.
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Heart Rate Variability: A possible machine learning biomarker for mechanical circulatory device complications and heart recovery [PDF]
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 +2 more
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Initial experience with the left ventricular assist device TransCoreTM [PDF]
Cardiogenic shock is a condition associated to high mortality rates. For decades, the treatment consisted of vasoactive drugs and intra-aortic balloon pump.
Alves, Claudia Maria Rodrigues +3 more
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Risk Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Device and Medical Management in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients The ROADMAP Study 2-Year Results [PDF]
OBJECTIVES The authors sought to provide the pre-specified primary endpoint of the ROADMAP (Risk Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Device and Medical Management in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients) trial at 2 years ...
Boyle, Andrew J. +15 more
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Temporal Trends in Contemporary Use of Ventricular Assist Devices by Race and Ethnicity
Background The proportion of racial/ethnic minorities receiving ventricular assist devices (VADs) has previously been less than expected. It is unclear if trends have changed since the broadening of access to insurance in 2014 and the rapid adoption of ...
Khadijah K. Breathett +13 more
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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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Living Without a Pulse: The Vascular Implications of Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Pulsatility seems to have a teleological role because evolutionary hierarchy favors higher ordered animals with more complex, multichamber circulatory systems that generate higher pulse pressure compared with lower ordered animals.
Suneet N. Purohit +4 more
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Chest radiographs of cardiac devices (Part 2): Ventricular assist devices
Heart failure is considered a worldwide pandemic affecting 26 million people globally. Patients who are unfit or waiting for cardiac transplantation may benefit from alternate mechanical support therapies using ventricular assist devices.
Rishi P. Mathew +3 more
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Heart failure occurs in 1% of the UK adult population yet represents 5% of all hospital admissions, according to the 2008/09 National Heart Failure audit (http://www.ic.nhs.uk/ webfiles/publications/002_Audits/NHS_IC_ HEART_FAILURE_AUDIT_13-12-10.pdf ).
Paul Harris, Lakshminarasimhan Kuppurao
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