Mechanical Circulatory Assistance
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CLINICIAN UPDATE Mechanical Circulatory Assistance State of Art
Case presentation 2: Patient is a 47-year-old man with a 12-year history of chronic heart failure due to idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. He now presents with New York Heart Association class IV symptoms that are refractory to medical therapy. At what point should we consider this patient for mechanical circulatory support? Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is an important adjunct to the m...
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EACH YEAR MORE than 600,000 people in this country die from coronary artery disease. It has been estimated that more than half of this number could be saved and returned to a productive life through the prompt application of either temporary or permanent forms of mechanical circulatory assistance (MCA).' Such a projection presumes that a means to detect life-threatening events can be devised an...
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The role of mechanical circulatory device therapy has progressed rapidly over the last 2 decades, from supporting the failing heart in hospitalized patients awaiting heart transplantation to permanent or “destination” outpatient therapy in individuals with end-stage systolic heart failure (HF) for whom transplantation is not an option. Over this period, devices themselves have evolved through s...
متن کاملPediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support
Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in the pediatric heart failure population has a limited history especially for infants, and neonates. It has been increasingly recognized that there is a rapidly expanding population of children diagnosed and living with heart failure. This expanding population has resulted in increasing numbers of children with medically resistant end-stage heart failure. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000035281.97319.a2