Clinical Use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 15454
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mechanical circulatory support; cardio-oncology; amyloidosis; myocarditis; cardiomyopathies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The era of ventricular assist devices (VAD) has arrived and is here to stay. In the USA, over 20,000 durable devices (the vast majority of which are isolated to the left ventricle i.e. “LVADs”) have been implanted in over 180 hospitals. As the technology continues to advance, patients with durable LVADs are living longer and with improved quality of life compared to patients on early generation devices. Most of these patients continue to be followed by internists for their general health. As inpatients, many LVAD patients are cared for by hospitals and internal medicine subspecialties for adverse events that are common for patients on long-term device support such as infections, gastrointestinal bleeding, and strokes. As the field continues to advance, with multiple FDA-approved devices, and as the volume of patients increases, it is imperative that the care of these patients is shared between heart failure cardiologists and the patients’ primary care physicians. This Special Issue aims to both update the internal medicine community on VAD use as well as to provide a forum for clinical and translational research within the VAD community.
Dr. Barry Trachtenberg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ventricular assist device
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Heart failure
- Destination therapy
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