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ReviewIndian heart journal2016

Durable left ventricular assist device therapy in advanced heart failure: Patient selection and clinical outcomes.

Sachin P Shah, Mandeep R Mehra

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Review in Indian heart journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Endocarditis in left ventricular assist device.Intractable & rare diseases research · 2016
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sachin P ShahCenter for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States; Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Mandeep R MehraCenter for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: MMEHRA@BWH.HARVARD.EDU.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing adoption of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) into clinical practice is related to a combination of engineering advances in pump technology and improvements in understanding the appropriate clinical use of these devices in the management of patients with advanced heart failure. This review intends to assist the clinician in identifying candidates for LVAD implantation, to examine long-term outcomes and provide an overview of the common complications related to use of these devices.

Indexed as

Disease ManagementHeart-Assist DevicesPatient SelectionEquipment DesignHeart FailureHumansTreatment OutcomeHeartMate XVEINTERMACSNovacor LVADREMATCH

Identifiers

PMID27056652
PMCPMC4824332

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