ReviewHeart failure reviews2019
Left ventricular assist device recovery: does duration of mechanical support matter?
Review in Heart failure reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of Isovolumic Loading Elicited Either by 3-Branch or by 4-Branch Spring Expander on the Degree of Cardiac Atrophy of the Failing Heart in Rats After Heterotopic Heart Transplantation: No Evidence for Sex-Linked Differences.Physiological research · 2025Article
- Intraventricular spring expander attenuates cardiac atrophy of the failing heart after unloading caused by heterotopic heart transplantation: no sex-linked differences.Physiological research · 2025Article
- Sex-Linked Differences in Cardiac Atrophy After Heterotopic Heart Transplantation: No Direct Relation to the Actions of Sex Steroid Hormones.Physiological research · 2024Article
- Does Myocardial Atrophy Represent Anti-Arrhythmic Phenotype?Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Ventricular assist device-promoted recovery and technical aspects of explant.JTCVS techniques · 2021Article
- Short- and long-term effects of a cardiac rehabilitation program in patients implanted with a left ventricular assist device.PloS one · 2021Observational
- Comparative analysis of cardiac mechano-energetics in isolated hearts supported by pulsatile or rotary blood pumps.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Heart failure is a widespread condition in the United States that is predicted to significantly increase in prevalence in the next decade. Many heart failure patients are given a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) while they wait for a heart transplant, while those that are not able to undergo a heart transplant may be given an LVAD permanently. However, past studies have observed a small subset of heart failure patients that recovered cardiac function of their native heart after being placed on an LVAD. As a result, some patients have been able to have their LVAD explanted and no longer needed a heart transplant. In this review, we analyzed the data of 15 studies that observed recovery of cardiac function in LVAD patients in order to investigate the effects that duration of LVAD support has on patient outcomes. From our review, we identified that there may be negative consequences of prolonged duration of mechanical support such as myocardial atrophy and abnormal calcium cycling as well as circumstances that may allow for a longer duration of LVAD support such as in patients using a continuous-flow LVAD, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy patients, and the specific pharmacological therapy.
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