Articles tagged "Heart assist devices"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Murine Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (mVA-ECMO): A Novel Tool to Study the Molecular Biology of Mechanical Circulatory Support
A. Schenk,¹ J. Fallon,¹ M. Farrell,¹ R. Halter,² J. Yun.³
¹Surgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; ²Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale New-Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT.
PURPOSE: In recent years, clinical use of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) has grown. Extracorporeal circulation is an essential component of heart and lung transplantation,…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Bleeding and Thrombosis in Responders and Initial Non-Responders to Aspirin After Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement
C. Floroff, K. Rieger, T. Veasey, S. Strout, H. Meadows, M. Stroud, J. Toole, M. Brisco, J. Cook, J. Lazarchick, W. Uber.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Purpose: This study evaluates bleeding and thrombosis following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) placement using platelet inhibition monitoring to determine responders to standard aspirin dosing…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Non-Cardiac Surgical Procedures After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
S. Taghavi,¹ S. Jayarajan,¹ A. Mangi,² E. Chan,¹ E. Dauer,¹ L. Sjoholm,¹ A. Pathak,¹ T. Santora,¹ A. Goldberg,¹ J. Rappold.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; ²Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Introduction: As left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) are increasingly used for patients with end-stage heart failure, the need for non-cardiac surgical procedures (NCS) in these…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Perioperative Bleeding on Long-Term Outcomes of Mechanical Circulatory Support
K. Lietz,¹ M. Mooney,¹ I. El Lakkis,² C. Derber,² U. Kelly,² C. Wilson,² A. Hoedt,¹ P. Bourassa,¹ B. Smith,¹ M. McGrath,¹ J. Herre.¹
¹Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, VA; ²Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA.
Purpose: Postoperative bleeding is a common complication of MCS surgery. The incidence of bleeding in published series exceeds by several times the 3-5% rates seen…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Increased Frequency of Terminally Differentiated and Exhausted CD8+ T Cells Is Associated With Adverse Clinical Outcome After Mechanical Circulatory Support Device Implantation
J. Schaenman,¹ Y. Korin,² T. Sidwell,² G. Sunga,² G. Bondar,³ N. Wisniewski,³ M. Kwon,⁴ M. Cadeiras,³ M. Deng,³ E. Reed.²
¹Medicine/Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ³Medicine/Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁴Cardiothoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Clinical outcomes vary after mechanical circulatory support device (MCSD) implantation, with some patients developing multi organ system dysfunction (MOD), sometimes leading to death. We hypothesized…