left ventricular assist devices
The Role of Echocardiography and Other Imaging Modalities in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices
... Although heart transplantation (HT) is an ideal option for patients with end stage heart disease, long waiting times have lead to an increase in the use of left ventricular assist devices ...
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The Effects of Left Ventricular Assist Devices on Myocardial Function and Cardiac Nervous System
... these devices, particularly as survival continues to increase, is likely to extend to their wider use as destination therapy ...uing left ventricular assist devices (LVAD)s recovery of ...
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Detecting Suspected Pump Thrombosis in Left Ventricular Assist Devices via Acoustic Analysis
... Abstract—Objective: Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) fail in up to 10% of patients due to the development of pump thrombosis. Remote monitoring of patients with LVADs can enable early ...
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Clinical management of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices in advanced heart failure
... Continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) have emerged as the standard of care for advanced heart failure patients requiring long-term mechanical circulatory ...emerging ...
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Defining Optimal Outcomes in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
... the Ventricular Assist System as Destination Therapy of Advanced Heart Failure (ENDUR- ANCE) trial had a primary composite end point of 2 years survival free from disabling stroke or device removal for mal- ...
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Modeling payback from research into the efficacy of left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy
... It is difficult to give precise estimates of the survival bene- fits of the latest generations of LVADs. The REMATCH trial is the only RCT to report results for LVADs as destination therapy, and these results were for ...
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Modeling payback from research into the efficacy of left-ventricular assist devices as destination therapy
... It is difficult to give precise estimates of the survival bene- fits of the latest generations of LVADs. The REMATCH trial is the only RCT to report results for LVADs as destination therapy, and these results were for ...
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Advancing the Science of Self‐Management in Adults With Long‐Term Left Ventricular Assist Devices
... Testing a mediation model. Int J Nurs Stud 2016;60:191-9. 8. Lin MY, Liu MF, Hsu LF, Tsai PS. Effects of self-management on chronic kidney disease: A meta-analysis. Int J Nurs Stud 2017;74:128-137. 9. Reynard AK, Butler ...
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Metabolic Dysfunction in Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices Patients and Outcomes. Methods
... The signi ficance of metabolic normalization after CF-LVAD implantation is not clear. Theoretically, with optimal unloading and improved tissue perfusion, there should be an improve- ment of most, if not all, metabolic ...
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Ventricular Arrhythmias and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy in Patients With Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices Need for Primary Prevention?
... Lastly, current practice is to implant ICDs in patients with heart failure and refractory VAs. Our data indicate that patients with a higher burden of pre-operative VAs were at risk for having more post-operative VAs. ...
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Midterm outcome of implantable left ventricular assist devices as a bridge to transplantation: Single-center experience in Japan
... USA) ventricular assist device implantation was 48% in patients with an INTERMACS profile 1 and 2, and 81% in patients with an INTERMACS profile 3 and ...
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Mathematical analysis of the effects of valvular regurgitation on the pumping efficacy of continuous and pulsatile left ventricular assist devices
... the volume when the pressure in the blood vessels differs from that outside. 2.2. Heart failure and valvular insufficiency condition To mimic spontaneous pumping of the heart, time-varying compliance was used for the ...
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Reverse remodeling following insertion of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD): A review of the morphological and molecular changes
... nations. Besides medical treatment, at present cardiac transplantation is the only curative way to treat terminal heart failure. Almost 63,000 heart transplantations have been performed worldwide, but the number of new ...
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Fatal Flaw - Driveline Fracture as a Rare but Serious Complication of Mechanical Circulatory Support with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
... The VAD Journal: The journal of mechanical assisted circulation and heart failure Although manufacturers have been able to decrease incidence of mechanical complications with design improvements 2 , the contribution of ...
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Minimally invasive implantation of continuous flow left ventricular assist devices: the evolution of surgical techniques in a single centre experience
... the left anterior mini- thoracotomy (LMT) for left ventricle apex exposure, combined with one of three possibilities: 1) the upper mini-sternotomy (UMS); 2) the right anterior mini-thoracotomy (RMT); 3) the ...
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Ventricular Assist Devices
... generation ventricular assist devices that provided a real progress in the surgical treatment of heart ...failure. Devices like the HeartMate II and the HeartWare MVAD found widespread ...
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Evaluation of Left Ventricular Assist Device Electrical Current as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Recovery
... Prediction of the external work of the native heart from the dynamic H-Q curves of the rotary blood pumps during left heart bypass. Artif. Organs 2010, 34, 766–777. 32. Pugovkin, A.A.; Markov, A.G.; Selishchev, S. ...
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Chronic Hemodialysis in a Patient with Left Ventricular Assist Device.
... (6) Hasin T, Topilsky Y, Schirger JA, et al. Changes in renal function after implantation of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. ...
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Chest radiographs of cardiac devices (Part 2): Ventricular assist devices
... performed. Left ventricular assist devices can alter the waveforms on carotid Doppler and findings include a parvus tardus waveform with a low peak systolic velocity and continuous diastolic ...
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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 ventricular ...
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