Ventricular Arrhythmias After Left Ventricular Assist Device

Ventricular arrhythmias after left ventricular assist device.

Ventricular arrhythmias after left ventricular assist device implantation.

BACKGROUND Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been used as a bridge to cardiac transplantation and as destination therapy in patients with advanced heart failure. The period after LVAD support is associated with ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) despite ventricular unloading and such VAs can have a detrimental effect on survival. Despite the increasing use of LVAD, little is known regardi...

Effects of left ventricular assist device therapy on ventricular arrhythmias.

OBJECTIVES In a retrospective study, we sought to evaluate the effect of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy on ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients with advanced congestive heart failure. BACKGROUND Despite the increasing use of LVAD as a bridge to cardiac transplantation, our knowledge regarding its effect on ventricular arrhythmias is currently limited to small series. Little...

Sexual function after left ventricular assist device.

To the Editor: Impaired sexual function is common in patients with heart failure (1) and following cardiac transplant. Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) improve survival, functional capacity, and quality of life for end-stage heart failure, but data regarding their impact on sexual function and satisfaction are limited to early devices and one small sample of continuous-flow devices from ...

Metabolic Reprogramming After Left€Ventricular Assist Device

D espite impressive changes at the organ, tissue and cellular level in myocardial reverse remodeling with left ventricular assist device support, reprogramming the presumed “endstage” human heart toward the nonfailing phenotype has not been convincingly demonstrated (1–5). Many have questioned the possibility of achieving sustained myocardial “recovery” using our current technology, leading to ...