Percutaneous Placement of an Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump in the Left Axillary/Subclavian Position Provides Safe, Ambulatory Long-Term Support as Bridge to Heart Transplantation

• Published in: JACC. Heart failure Vol. 1; no. 5; pp. 382 - 388
• Main Authors: Estep, Jerry D., Cordero-Reyes, Andrea M., Bhimaraj, Arvind, Trachtenberg, Barry, Khalil, Nashwa, Loebe, Matthias, Bruckner, Brian, Orrego, Carlos M., Bismuth, Jean, Kleiman, Neal S., Torre-Amione, Guillermo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Axillary Artery; Cardiovascular; Feasibility Studies; Female; heart failure; Heart Failure - drug therapy; heart transplant; Heart Transplantation; Heart-Assist Devices; Humans; intra-aortic balloon pump; Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping; Male; Middle Aged; Patient Safety; Prosthesis Implantation - methods; Retrospective Studies; Subclavian Artery; Time Factors; heart failure; intra-aortic balloon pump; IABP; subclavian artery; heart transplant; OHT; CXR; HF; LVAD; orthotopic heart transplantation; chest x-ray; left ventricular assist device

This study evaluated the feasibility, tolerability, and efficacy of a strategy for percutaneous intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) placement through the left axillary-subclavian artery to provide mechanical circulatory support in patients with end-stage heart failure as a bridge to heart transplantati...