Ventricular Assist Devices in Advanced-Stage Heart Failure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kyo, Shunei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Thoracic surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.; Thoracic Surgery.

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 prov...

Table of Contents:

• 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.