Miniature Intracardiac Assist Device Provides More Effective Cardiac Unloading and Circulatory Support During Severe Left Heart Failure Than Intraaortic Balloon Pumping

CHEST Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 896-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen D. Reesink ◽  
André L. Dekker ◽  
Vincent van Ommen ◽  
Cecile Soemers ◽  
Gijs G. Geskes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Circulatory Support ◽  
Intraaortic Balloon ◽  
Left Heart ◽  
Assist Device ◽  
Left Heart Failure ◽  
Intraaortic Balloon Pumping ◽  
Cardiac Unloading

Hemodynamics of High Afterload Left Heart Failure for Assist Device Testing

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-279
Author(s):  
John E. Chimoskey ◽  
Babetta A. Breuhaus ◽  
Stephen W. Ely
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Left Heart ◽  
Assist Device ◽  
Left Heart Failure

scholarly journals Pediatric Palliative Care in the Heart Failure, Ventricular Assist Device and Transplant Populations: Supporting Patients, Families and Their Clinical Teams

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 468
Author(s):  
Kyle D. Hope ◽  
Priya N. Bhat ◽  
William J. Dreyer ◽  
Barbara A. Elias ◽  
Jaime L. Jump ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Heart Transplantation ◽  
Ventricular Assist Device ◽  
Mechanical Circulatory Support ◽  
Pediatric Palliative Care ◽  
Circulatory Support ◽  
Assist Device ◽  
Ventricular Assist ◽  
Patients With Heart Failure

Heart failure is a life-changing diagnosis for a child and their family. Pediatric patients with heart failure experience significant morbidity and frequent hospitalizations, and many require advanced therapies such as mechanical circulatory support and/or heart transplantation. Pediatric palliative care is an integral resource for the care of patients with heart failure along its continuum. This includes support during the grief of a new diagnosis in a child critically ill with decompensated heart failure, discussion of goals of care and the complexities of mechanical circulatory support, the pensive wait for heart transplantation, and symptom management and psychosocial support throughout the journey. In this article, we discuss the scope of pediatric palliative care in the realm of pediatric heart failure, ventricular assist device (VAD) support, and heart transplantation. We review the limited, albeit growing, literature in this field, with an added focus on difficult conversation and decision support surrounding re-transplantation, HF in young adults with congenital heart disease, the possibility of destination therapy VAD, and the grimmest decision of VAD de-activation.

Pickwick syndrome

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
V. I. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Right Heart Failure ◽  
Cor Pulmonale ◽  
Left Heart ◽  
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome ◽  
Right Heart ◽  
Left Heart Failure ◽  
Hypoventilation Syndrome ◽  
Obesity Hypoventilation

Obesity, as you know, is often combined with atherosclerosis, hypertension and their characteristic left-heart failure. Least of all, in our opinion, obesity is associated with cor pulmonale and right-heart failure. "Pickwick syndrome", it is also known as "Ioe syndrome", "cardiopulmonary syndrome of patients with obesity", "obesity-hypoventilation syndrome".

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