Ventricular assist devices in advanced-stage heart failure /

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Imprint:	Tokyo : Springer, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 145 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Cardiovascular instruments, Implanted. Heart -- Ventricles -- Diseases -- Treatment. Heart failure -- Treatment. Cardiovascular instruments, Implanted. Heart failure -- Treatment.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11082567

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Other authors / contributors:	Kyo, Shunei, editor.
ISBN:	9784431544661 4431544666 9784431544654
Notes:	Includes index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 25, 2013).
Summary:	This book focuses on how ventricular assist devices (VADs) can help provide destination therapy for patients with terminal heart failure, one of the most serious diseases in the world today because of the tremendous number of patients, the high mortality rate, and the cost of care. One means of providing cardiological support for patients suffering from heart failure is with VADs, and more than 10,000 patients worldwide have now been implanted with these devices. Half of them already have lived more than one year, and 2,000 patients more than two years, after surgery. This improved survival means that we have reached a point where VADs can be used for destination therapy, not just for bridge-to-recovery or bridge-to-transplant. In view of the increasing number of patients with advanced-stage heart failure and the availability and longevity of transplanted hearts, VADs can solve many problems. In addition to providing information about the devices themselves, this book includes vital guidelines on long-term management and support of VAD-implanted patients' everyday lives.
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-4-431-54466-1

Table of Contents:

Opportunities and Challenges for LVAD Therapy Now and in the Future / Walter P. Dembitsky and Robert M. Adamson
The State of Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Today / Erskine A. James and John B. O'Connell
Older Destination Therapy Patient Selection / Robert M. Adamson and Walter P. Dembitksy
The Economics of Long-Term Ventricular Assist Device Therapy for Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure / Robin R. Bostic
Improving Clinical Outcomes: A Targeted Approach / Mark Jay Zucker and Hassan Baydoun
Transplant Versus VAD: Evolving and Future Perspectives / Hiroo Takayama, Sunu Thomas and Yoshifumi Naka
Strategies to Assess and Minimize Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation / Michihito Nonaka and Vivek Rao
Innovation Update / David J. Farrar, Kevin Bourque, Steven H. Reichenbach, Paul Muller and Laxmi Peri.
Chapter 1. Opportunities and Challenges for LVAD Therapy Now and in The Future
Chapter 2. The State of Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Today
Chapter 3. Older Destination Therapy Patient Selection
Chapter 4. The Economics of Long-Term Ventricular Assist Device Therapy for Patients with End Stage Heart Failure
Chapter 5. Improving Clinical Outcomes: A Targeted Approach
Chapter 6. Transplant versus VAD: Evolving and Future Perspectives
Chapter 7. Strategies to Assess and Minimize Right Heart Failure after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
Chapter 8. Innovation Update.

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