The Right Prediction

[...]many clinical investigators who work in this area have attempted to assess RV function pre-operatively, so as to either better select appropriate candidates for LVAD support, mitigate the impact of poor RV function post-operatively, or allow planning for interventions such as RV assist devices....

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Published inJournal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 529 - 530
Main Author Boehmer, John P., MD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 07.08.2012
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
assist device
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Drug therapy
Female
Heart failure
Heart Failure - diagnosis
Heart Failure - surgery
Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging
Heart-Assist Devices
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Mortality
Patients
Population
right ventricle
strain
Studies
Ultrasonography
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - surgery
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right - diagnostic imaging
strain
heart failure
assist device
right ventricle
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Summary:[...]many clinical investigators who work in this area have attempted to assess RV function pre-operatively, so as to either better select appropriate candidates for LVAD support, mitigate the impact of poor RV function post-operatively, or allow planning for interventions such as RV assist devices. [...]it would appear more likely that this particular group of clinicians monitored RV function closely and treated RV failure aggressively. [...]the definition of RV failure used, while an accepted definition used in prior similar studies, may be flawed in that the definition relies heavily on a physician's reaction to a patient's condition more so than simply measuring the patient's condition.
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ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2012.04.033