Echocardiographic Evaluation of Hemodynamics in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure Supported by a Continuous-Flow LVAD - Estep, Jerry D.; Vivo, Rey P.; Krim, Selim R.; Cordero-Reyes, Andrea M.; Elias, Barbara; Loebe, Matthias; Bruckner, Brian A.; Bhimaraj, Arvind; Trachtenberg, Barry H.; Ashrith, Guha; Torre-Amione, Guillermo; Nagueh, Sherif F. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2014)
Keywords: Adult; Aged; Cardiac Catheterization - methods; Cardiology; Cardiovascular; Doppler; echocardiography; Echocardiography, Doppler - methods; Female; Heart failure; Heart Failure, Systolic - diagnostic imaging; Heart Failure, Systolic - surgery; Heart rate; Heart-Assist Devices; hemodynamics; Hemodynamics - physiology; Humans; Hypertension; Intubation; left ventricular assist device; Male; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Pulmonary arteries; Ventricular Function, Left - physiology; NYHA; RAP; heart failure; A; RV; CF-LVAD; E; echocardiography; PCWP; LV; LAVi; PVR; hemodynamics; LVAD; rpm; RVOT; sPAP; LAP; left ventricular assist device; Doppler; left atrial volume index; systolic pulmonary artery pressure; mitral inflow late diastolic filling peak velocity; right ventricular outflow tract; New York Heart Association; right atrial pressure; left ventricular; left atrial pressure; continuous-flow left ventricular assist device; revolutions per minute; right ventricular; pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; mitral inflow early diastolic filling peak velocity; early diastolic mitral annular velocity; pulmonary vascular resistance