Successful conservative management of left ventricular assist device candidates.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Clinical trials comparing LVADs vs. conservative therapy were performed before the availability of novel medications or used suboptimal medical therapy. This study aimed to report that long-term stabilization of patients entering a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) programme is possible with the use of aggressive conservative therapy. This is important because the excellent clinical stabilization provided by LVADs comes at the expense of significant complications.

Methods and results

This study was a single-centre prospective evaluation of consecutive patients with advanced heart failure (HF) fulfilling criteria for LVAD implantation based on clinical and echocardiographic characteristics, cardiopulmonary exercise test, and right heart catheterization results. Their

SUBMITTER: Havakuk O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9871693 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature