Valvular heart disease in patients supported with left ventricular assist devices.
Rogers, JG, Felker, GM, Frazier, OH, and Rose, EA. "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Supported with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Are Bridge-to-Transplant and Destination Therapy Populations Different?.": Elsevier BV, August 2006.
A protocol using transthoracic echocardiography was designed to diagnose the common malfunctions of patients on chronic support with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
Only one in five people with cancer receive any kind of formal support, with many left housebound or unable to wash or dress themselves, a charity has said.
We sought to evaluate the contractile proteins in cardiomyocytes of patients with end-stage heart failure (HF) before and after mechanical support with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
Both renal and liver values from patients in the normal groups remained normal during support with the left ventricular assist device.
The CT results in our series support this theory, with left bronchial stenosis as the most common finding.
All cases were supported with a left ventricular pulsatile VAD and inotropic drugs for an average of 7 days.
One study compared 502 patients supported with a left ventricular assist device with 2514 patients receiving inotropic therapy between 1990 and 1997.
12 A total of 280 candidates at 24 centres were treated with Heartmate and compared with a historical control group of 48 patients not supported with a left ventricular assist device.
