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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"left ventricular assist device"”.
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Assessing Risk For Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
… account for poor outcomes. Implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has offered the promise of improved financial, clinical, and functional outcomes for those awaiting or ineligible for heart transplantation. Right Heart Failure (RHF), however, threatens positive outcomes as it …
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Left ventricular assist device therapy: family caregivers' stress, perceived burden and quality of life.
Background: Individuals implanted with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) as bridge to transplant or as destination therapy expect to be discharged home. Responsibility for providing care to those patients has fallen almost exclusively to family caregivers. Yet there is a paucity of research …
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Patients' and caregivers' inside perspectives: living with a left-ventricular assist device as destination therapy
<p>Left-ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have improved 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 …
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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
… HeartMate II (Thoratec Corp., Pleasanton, CA) left‐ventricular assist device (HMII) patients. For patients with biventricular heart failure the TAH is a viable option to bridge patients until transplant becomes available. Its demonstrated improvement in mortality and increasing usage …
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Quantitative Analyse klappeninduzierter Mikroembolien mittels Doppler-Sonographie in vitro für gängige Herzklappenprothesen
… types were inserted in mitral position of a left ventricular assist device (MEDOS?). A pulsed ultrasound machine with a dual gated 2 MHz transducer and embolus detection software was used. The ultrasound probe was firm integrated in the circulatory, while detection was performed at two depths …
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Experiences of being maintained on a ventricular assist device
… cardiac support from two different types of ventricular assist device (VAD). The literature review focuses on the decisionmaking experience of patients and caregivers considering implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). The LVAD is a type of long-term/durable VAD which enables …
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FALL PREVENTION IN THE ED
… specializing in stroke, pediatrics, heart, and left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) patients. For the calendar year of 2016 there were thirty-reported patient falls in the ED. The global aim is to reduce the patient fall rate by 35% for the 2017 calendar year. The project’s objective is to …
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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of strategies to treat end-stage heart failure using discrete event simulation
… cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies to assist in decision-making. However, resource constraints are not usually explicitly considered in HTA. For example, if a patient requires a new drug, it is assumed that that resource is available immediately, without delay to the patient. Queues and …
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In Vitro and In Silico Study of Deposition on Textured Biomaterials: Towards Biofunctionalization of Ventricular Cannula
… organs. One neglected source of blood clot in left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is the inflow cannula, where emboli are produced. The emboli may be later ingested and ejected from the pump. A widely explored strategy to prevent surface-induced thrombosis in cardiovascular implants is to …
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A Multi-Scale CFD Analysis of Patient-Specific Geometries to Tailor LVAD Cannula Implantation Under Pulsatile Flow Conditions: an investigation aimed at reducing stroke incidence in LVADs
A Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump that provides temporary circulatory support when used as bridge-to-transplantation and relieves workload demand placed on a failing heart allowing for myocardia recovery when used as destination therapy. Stroke is the most devastating …
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Die Mikrodiagonalpumpe : tierexperimentelle Untersuchung eines Linksherzunterstützungssystems unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Thromboembolie-Risikos
… years a couple of pulsatile and non-pulsatile assist devices have been developed, aiming to improve the current situation. Despite the continuous enhancement of these assist devices they still are affiliated with a considerable amount of complications. Amongst others, bleeding and …
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CHANGES IN VE/VCO2 SLOPE OVER TIME IN LVAD RECIPIENTS
… of patients with heart failure (HF), including left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) recipients. Peak oxygen uptake (pVO2) and VE/VCO2 slope are key prognostic parameters, but their values after LVAD implantation and relationship with right ventricular (RV) dysfunction remain poorly …