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Mechanical Circulatory Support in Cardiogenic Shock — Persistence and Progress

May 18, 2024 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

This article presents a succinct but comprehensive expert viewpoint on support in cardiogenic shock using the manuscript of the DanGer trial on promising results of Impella in a highly selected subgroup. With only 360 patients...

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Analysis of UNOS: Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge-to-Transplant in Paediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

November 13, 2025 | EACTS StaffSilver Contributor

This study analyzed 3,394 pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients listed for heart transplant from 2014 to 2023. Of these, 16.5 percent received ventricular assist device (VAD) support while waitlisted....

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18F-FDG PET/CT and Radiolabeled Leukocyte SPECT/CT Imaging for the Evaluation of Cardiovascular Infection in the Multimodality Context

November 27, 2024 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The opening manuscript on the expected series of American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Imaging Indications. For the cardiovascular surgeon, Tables 2 and 7 offer an update on the use of...

JANS Article

Mechanical Circulatory Support in Cardiogenic Shock — Persistence and Progress

May 18, 2024 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

This article presents a succinct but comprehensive expert viewpoint on support in cardiogenic shock using the manuscript of the DanGer trial on promising results of Impella in a highly selected...

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Value of Invasive Hemodynamic Assessments in Patients Supported by Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices

January 17, 2024 | Jason Trevis

This review explores the application of invasive hemodynamic assessments in the personalization of care for patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). The authors provide a comprehensive approach to their...

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Predicting 1-Year Cardiac Transplantation Survival Using a Donor–Recipient Risk-Assessment Tool

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A somewhat delayed publication of a 2016 paper that discusses important trends in cardiac transplanation in the light of increasing use of ECMO.

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Long-Term Survival in Patients Receiving a Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device

April 3, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Gosev and colleagues evaluated the baseline characteristics and outcomes in 156 patients from 12 centers who survived at least four years on left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support. Among this...

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Two-Year Outcomes With a Magnetically Levitated Cardiac Pump in Heart Failure

March 12, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An interesting two-year report from the MOMENTUM 3 randomized controlled trial comparison of HeartMate 3 and II, the analysis performed by Abbott. Although stroke and reoperation were clearly lower with...

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Cerebral Strokes in Children on Intracorporeal Ventricular Assist Devices: Analysis of the EUROMACS Registry

February 8, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Schweiger and colleagues retrospectively analyzed stroke rate for patients under 19 years old in the European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support database. Analysis of the 51 pediatric patients...

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Cost-Effectiveness and the Ethics of Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy

January 2, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A sobering editorial, read last May at the AATS, that discusses at length the ethics of ventricular assist as a super expensive therapy seen from the principle of fairness.

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Outcomes Associated With Left Ventricular Assist Devices Among Recipients With and Without End-Stage Renal Disease

December 22, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Bansal and colleagues describe survival after left ventricular assist device placement for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), based on Medicare claims associated with data in the United States Renal...

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To Breathe or to Breathe Better: Is That the Question?

November 16, 2017 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The incoming issue of the Journal comes with an interesting group of papers revolving around a provocative topic: work from Seattle on the absence of predictive value of standard pulmonary...

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Round and Round We Go…

October 27, 2017 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A measured succinct reflection on MagLev and older ventricular assist devices, on the occasion of a relevant ‘expert opinion’ paper on the topic.

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