Characteristics and outcome of ambulatory heart failure patients receiving a left ventricular assist device.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Despite regularly updated guidelines, there is still a delay in referral of advanced heart failure patients to mechanical circulatory support and transplant centres. We aimed to analyse characteristics and outcome of non-inotrope-dependent patients implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).

Methods and results

The ASSIST-ICD registry collected LVAD data in 19 centres in France between February 2006 and December 2016. We used data of patients in Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support Classes 4-7. The primary endpoint was survival analysis. Predictors of mortality were searched with multivariable analyses. A total of 303 patients (mean age 61.0 ± 9.9 years, male sex 86.8%) were included in the present analysis. Ischaemic cardiomyop

SUBMITTER: Baudry G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8712824 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature