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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"advanced heart failure"”.
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Access to Life: Advanced Heart Failure Therapies for Undocumented Immigrants
… (UIs) from life-sustaining treatments for advanced heart failure (AHF), creating profound ethical violations and health disparities. This thesis demonstrates how excluding UIs from AHF therapies breaches justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence by restricting access to mechanical …
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Advance Care Planning in Advanced Heart Failure: A Relational Exploration of Autonomy
… options available to patients living with advanced heart failure (HF), ACP is regarded as a means of preserving individual autonomy throughout the illness trajectory. Despite significant public awareness campaigns, research and interventions developed to increase participation in ACP, this …
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A Comparison of Maximal Exercise Responses among Patients with a Total Artificial Heart, a Left Ventricular Assist Device, or Advanced Heart Failure
… the exercise response in total artificial heart (TAH) patients to both advanced heart failure (HF) patients on medical management only and HeartMate II (Thoratec Corp., Pleasanton, CA) left‐ventricular assist device (HMII) patients. For patients with biventricular heart failure the TAH is a …
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A palliative care approach for people with advanced heart failure : recognition of need, transitions in care and impact on patients, family carers and clinicians
… and national consensus guidelines, patients with advanced heart failure (HF) have significant unmet palliative care needs. UK policy recommends identification of those requiring palliative care based on prognosis (last year of life). However, HF has an unpredictable course, and clinicians might …
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Treatment approaches to chronic decompensated heart failure
Heart failure remains, to this day, a clinical challenge for both patients and clinicians. For stage A and B patients, lifestyle changes, healthier diets, risk factors control, and comorbidities management are recommended. In stage C, aside from the general management in stages A and B are …
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Assessing Risk For Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
… are negatively impacted by the diagnosis of Advanced Heart Failure. Financial burden, repeated hospitalizations, and declining quality of life account for poor outcomes. Implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has offered the promise of improved financial, clinical, and …
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Širdies resinchronizuojamojo gydymo efektyvumo įvertinimas ir prognozavimas /
Chronic heart failure (HF) is the main cause determining increasing morbidity and mortality of the patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases related to sudden death or progressive heart insufficiency. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a progressive, modern and very promising method …
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Cardiac resynchronisation therapy: evaluation and prediction of effectiveness /
Chronic heart failure (HF) is the main cause determining increasing morbidity and mortality of the patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases related to sudden death or progressive heart insufficiency. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a progressive, modern and very promising method …
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Patients' and caregivers' inside perspectives: living with a left-ventricular assist device as destination therapy
… the quality of life for many patients with advanced heart failure. Past research focused on technology issues and survival rates, but patients' and caregivers' perspectives of living with an LVAD as a destination therapy (e.g., permanent alternative to transplant) was not explored. Roy's …
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Early palliative care for people with advanced illnesses: research into practice
Identifying people with advanced illnesses whose health is deteriorating, assessing their needs and planning care proactively with them are healthcare priorities given the demographic trend of ageing populations in the UK and internationally. Over the past 10 years (2004-2014), I have led a series …
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The role of myocardial fibrosis and ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony in the pathogenesis and treatment of contractile myocardial dysfunction.
… disease. Dysfunction of the left ventricle in heart failure exposes the left atrium to elevated pressures during diastole, which result in adverse left atrial remodelling and impairment. Although the development of systolic left ventricular impairment has been linked with a number of causative …