Echocardiographic Ramp Test for Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Do Loading Conditions Matter?

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 291-299

  Adatya, Sirtaz ^a   Holley, Christopher T ^a   Roy, Samit S ^a   Yarmohammadi, Hirad ^a   Feng, Amy ^a   Eckman, Peter ^a   Colvin Adams, Monica ^a   John, Ranjit ^a   Masri, Carolina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AI; Aortic insufficiency; AUC; CF; Continuous flow left ventricular assist device; Echocardiographic ramp test; Heartfailure; Hemodynamics; LDH; LVAD; LVEDD; MAP; Mean arterial pressure thrombosis; PI; ROC

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICE THROMBOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; ROC CURVE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84926408204     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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