Not all ICDs in patients with LVAD are futile! We recorded immediate drop in pulmonary pressures and increase in CVP in an LVAD patient who went into ventricular fibrillation, with immediate recovery post defibrillation. Check out our case report! https://t.co/8kGvOuJYzh
Who agrees with me?
There is a dire shortage of doctors signing up to heart failure fellowships with >60% programs unfilled. I propose the following:
- allow the entry into HF training to general internists—including those who did not match to cardiology
- if they then proceed to cardiology fellowship, allow them to sit for HF Boards after they are Board certified in Cardiology
- If they remain internists with HF training, create an alternative certificate for them.
This would yield immediate benefits:
- all available fellowship slots would be filled with eager and capable trainees
- teaching faculty will be teaching again
- the market will be saturated with HF doctors
Read my whole piece https://t.co/vfzOnCz5vN
@HFSA@JACCJournals@nikhilna@NirUrielMD@Aheartdoc@AHAScience@EMDeFilippisMD@DmitryAbramovMD@EiranGorodeski
New Case Report 🚨
Acute Impella thrombosis during Ecpella support in a 48-year-old man
Read more of this article by Araj et al. here:
https://t.co/ZfMVHwpM4o
New Case Report 🚨
Impella 5.5 device providing critical left ventricular support during RF ablation for refractory VTach
Read more of this article by Singh et al. here:
https://t.co/AFxlceOrxW
One of our most-read articles of the year!
Colvin et al. describe how combined neurohormonal blockade appears to reduce morbidity and mortality in patients with LVAD implants.
https://t.co/JDjEt3NUku
Mikhail and colleagues use pulsatility to predict improvement of cardiac function after the use of stem cells. Read all about it in the latest paper published by @TheVADJournal
https://t.co/7cK3Agvnoq
Make it simple-the case for single dose fondaparinux is outlaid in our latest release. Piani et al describes how fondaparinux was used for GI bleeding in the LVAD population. @TheVADJournal https://t.co/aFZY0e3vw8
Low flare alarms sounding right after you finish a LVAD implantation? Start your week off right and read about an interesting case of acute pump thrombosis @TravisAbicht@DaliaTarun@ZubairShahMD@AmandeepGoyal13 https://t.co/nyaT0ddjMr
We just published the results of the survey "Should COVID Vaccination
Be Required in Heart
Transplantation & Left Ventricular Assist Device
Implantation?" from Susan Joseph's team.
https://t.co/Huo29AQ9CU
Enjoy!
Do you know hoe to recognize cardiac tamponade on VA ECMO +Imella?
We are reporting our findings on a patient who developed cardiac tamponade
on the Ecpella support.
https://t.co/yozperXXFU
Need to do a HMII exchange without CPB support in a patient with PAD? This week's case report presents a step-by-step guide. Download it today @UTHCardiology
https://t.co/XqjipErZ0H
COVID introduces all sorts of new challenges to LVAD care. Read the latest case report from @TheVADJournal that discusses the use of IV tissue plasminogen activator in a case of LVAD thrombosis https://t.co/mILNiuiBAG