Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
Stroke and Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
... on left ventricular assist device (LVAD) by neurointerventional means is rare and many anesthesia providers are unfamiliar with both LVAD and neurointerventional ...
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Accuracy of the Masimo Pronto-7® system in patients with left ventricular assist device
... with left ventricular cardiac failure, a rotary blood pump generates a constant, continuous, non-pulsatile flow to improve effective cardiac ...with left ventricular cardiac ...
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Evaluation of Left Ventricular Assist Device Electrical Current as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Recovery
... of ventricular recovery during left ventricular assist device (LVAD) ...between ventricular recovery degree and the pump electric current pulsatility index ...of ...
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Numerical Study of a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) With Different Blade Heights and Tip Clearances
... limitation, Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) have become a promising alternative treatment ...heart assist device to increase blood flow to peripheral ...a Left Ventricular ...
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Thromboembolic stroke in patients with a HeartMate-II left ventricular assist device – the role of anticoagulation
... Background and purpose: It is unknown what the optimal anticoagulant level is to prevent thromboembolic stroke in patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support. We aimed ...
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Laparoscopic nephroureterectomy in a patient with a left ventricular assist device
... Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy is an established treatment option for select patients with advanced heart ...CA) LVAD, who underwent a laparoscopic left ...
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Left ventricular assist device implantation in high risk destination therapy patients: an alternative surgical approach
... Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) for Destination Therapy (DT) has been an established therapy for over a decade [1] with the Heartmate VE™ and more recently with the Heartmate II™ ...
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Right ventricular failure following left ventricular assist device implantation is associated with a preoperative pro-inflammatory response
... Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device; CPB: Cardiopulmonary Bypass; Cr: Creatinine; CRP: C-Reactive Protein; CRT-D: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Defibrillator; IABP: Intra-Aortic Balloon ...
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Osteopathic treatment in a patient with left-ventricular assist device with left brachialgia: a case report
... with left-ventricular assist device (L-VAD) affected by left ...the left proximal ulnar nerve, related to the surgical sternotomy ...first left rib, ...
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Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy
... The left ventricular assist device was originally designed to be surgically implanted as a bridge to transplantation for patients with chronic end-stage heart ...the left ...
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Improving anticoagulation of patients with an implantable left ventricular assist device
... PDSA 1: first audit cycle (4-month cycle from November 2014). The first audit cycle was conducted to measure the effectiveness of anticoagulation in LVAD patients and identify areas where performance could be ...
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Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy and left ventricular assist device: a word of caution
... where LVAD function was normal upon ...of LVAD flow charac- teristics and LV ...in LVAD therapy, it may justify more liberal access to high urgency listing for patients afflicted with this particular ...
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Heart monitoring using left ventricle impedance and ventricular electrocardiography in left ventricular assist device patients
... ECG device are uncomfortable for a patient who is already connected to a ...[14]. Ventricular electrocardio- grams (v-ECGs) taken directly from the heart rarely show noticeable differences be- tween normal ...
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Resternotomy does not adversely affect outcome after left ventricular assist device implantation
... We retrospectively reviewed the database of our inter- disciplinary heart failure unit to identify consecutive adult patients who received a continuous-flow LVAD at our institution from December 2010 through June ...
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Development and characterization of the arterial windkessel and its role during left ventricular assist device assistance
... Modelling of the cardiovascular system is challenging but it has the potential to further advance our understanding of normal and pathological conditions. Morphology and function are closely related. The arterial system ...
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Emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy for intraabdominal hemorrhage in a patient with a left ventricular assist device: a case report
... This case further supports the usefulness of laparoscopic approach for avoiding driveline injury in patients with LVADs. There are currently three case reports [3–5] and three case series including four to six cases ...
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The effect of heart failure and left ventricular assist device treatment on right ventricular mechanics: a computational study
... condition. LVAD treatment increased the flux through the MV, TV, and PV as well as their opening duration compared to HF ...with LVAD treatment are ...
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Is there a difference in bleeding after left ventricular assist device implant: centrifugal versus axial?
... following LVAD im- plantation is multifactorial given the need for chronic anticoagulation as well as the changes in systemic immunologic and thrombostatic functions ...
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Trends in left ventricular assist device use and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries, 2004–2011
... in LVAD implantation over time, we fi tted a linear mixed effects model with a Poisson link function and state-speci fi c random inter- cepts, and adjusted for demographics (age, sex and ...in LVAD ...
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Uncovering the cathepsin system in heart failure patients submitted to Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implantation
... The main limitation of this study is the low number of patients. However, the internal control (HT group) and the post-LVAD group operated by collecting in the same patient myocardial tissue at HT time from both ...
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