Use of a Pulmonary Artery Pressure Sensor to Manage Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hemodynamic-guided management with a pulmonary artery pressure sensor (CardioMEMS) is effective in reducing heart failure hospitalization in patients with chronic heart failure. This study aims to determine the feasibility and clinical utility of the CardioMEMS heart failure system to manage patients supported with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs).

Methods

In this multicenter prospective study, we followed patients with HeartMate II (n=52) or HeartMate 3 (n=49) LVADs and with CardioMEMS PA Sensors and measured pulmonary artery pressure, 6-minute walk distance, quality of life (EQ-5D-5 L scores), and heart failure hospitalization rates through 6 months. Patients were stratified as responders (R) and nonresponders to reductions in pulmonary artery diastolic p

SUBMITTER: Thohan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10278567 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature