Overall quality of life improves to similar levels after mechanical circulatory support regardless of severity of heart failure before implantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 412-421

  Grady, Kathleen L ^a   Naftel, David ^b   Stevenson, Lynne ^c   Amanda Dew, Mary ^d   Weidner, Gerdi ^e   Pagani, Francis D ^f   Kirklin, James K ^b   Myers, Susan ^b   Baldwin, Timothy ^g   Young, James ^h  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous flow pump; health related quality of life; heart failure; INTERMACS; mechanical circulatory support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD PUMP; CONTINUOUS FLOW PUMP; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897029594     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2013.10.017     Document Type: Article

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