Muthiah, Kavitha and Phan, Justin and Robson, Desiree and Macdonald, Peter S and Keogh, Anne M and Kotlyar, Eugene and Granger, Emily and Dhital, Kumud and Spratt, Phillip and Jansz, Paul and Hayward, Christopher S (2013) Centrifugal continuous-flow left ventricular assist device in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a case series. ASAIO Journal, 59 (2). pp.183-7. ISSN 1538-943X (N/A)
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Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy has been used primarily in patients with end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are generally excluded. We compared outcomes in 3 HCM patients with 36 DCM patients. While HCM patients had smaller left ventricular end-diastolic dimensions, average pump flows for the two groups were similar. All patients had marked improvement in mean pulmonary arterial pressures and cardiac index at 5 months. This analysis shows that patients with end-stage heart failure resulting from HCM do benefit from centrifugal cfLVAD therapy in the short to medium term.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2016 03:03 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2018 05:16 |
| URI: | https://eprints.victorchang.edu.au/id/eprint/131 |
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