Morgan / Civitello / Frazier Mechanical Circulatory Support for Advanced Heart Failure

A Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine Approach
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-65364-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Medicine

Provides the most up to date information on every aspect of clinical care relating to patients with advanced heart failure who require mechanical circulatory support

Written by experts in the field from the Texas Heart Institute
Summarizes the national and international outcomes data for using MCS as a bridge to transplant and destination therapy

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Jeffrey A.

Civitello, Andrew B.

Frazier, O.H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

History of Mechanical Circulatory Support.- Who is an Appropriate Candidate for Long-Term MCS: The Art of Patient Selection.- Optimization of Right Ventricular Function Pre-Operatively for LVAD Implantation.- Bridge-to-Bridge Strategies with IABP, Impella, and Tandem Heart.- LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Extra-Peritoneal Approach.- LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Infra-Diaphragmatic Approach.- Intraoperative Anesthesia Management.- Perioperative Management of LVAD Patients.- Perioperative Optimization of a Patient’s Fluid Status.- Chronic Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices.- Surveillance Echocardiography for LVAD Patients.- Diagnosis of Device Thrombosis.- Device Exchange: THI Technique Involving a Left Subcostal Approach.- Mechanical Circulatory Support to Bridge to a Long-term Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.- Outcomes Using LVADs for Destination Therapy.- Cardiac Regenerative Strategies for Advanced Heart Failure.- Long-Term Complications of Ventricular Assist Devices.- Right Ventricular Failure in Patients Undergoing LVAD Placement.

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey A. Morgan, MDChief, Division of Cardiothoracic TransplantationSurgical Director, Advanced Heart Failure CenterCHI Baylor St. Luke’s Medical CenterTexas Heart Institute6770 Bertner Avenue, Suite C-355NHouston, TX 77030

Andrew Civitello, MDMedical Director, Heart Transplant ProgramCo-Director, Advanced Heart Failure CenterCHI Baylor St. Luke’s Medical CenterTexas Heart Institute6620 Main Street, Suite 1225Houston, TX 77030

O.H. Frazier, MDChief, Center for Cardiac SupportCHI Baylor St. Luke’s Medical CenterTexas Heart InstitutePO Box 20345, MC 2-114AHouston, TX 77225