ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2025
Case Report: Intragastric balloon placement for weight loss in LVAD patients-a bridge to heart transplantation.
Article in Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Abstract
Obesity significantly increases the risk of advanced heart failure, complicating heart transplantation candidacy. Despite aggressive medical therapies, achieving weight loss in these patients remains challenging, especially in patients after durable ventricular assist device (LVAD). More intense weight loss interventions such as bariatric and metabolic surgery and endoscopic bariatric therapies (EBTs) can lead to meaningful weight reduction, enabling previously ineligible individuals to become transplant candidates. A 51-year-old gentleman with end-stage heart and kidney failure status-post HeartMate 3 LVAD (Abbott, Chicago, IL) and Class II obesity (BMI 36.5 kg/m
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