Cardiac remodeling in patients with centrifugal left ventricular assist devices assessed by serial echocardiography.
Johanna MulzerHristo KrastevChristoph HoermandingerNicolas MerkeMazen AlhaloushFelix SchoenrathVolkmar FalkEvgenij V PotapovJan KnierimPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2022)
LVAD therapy can lead to reverse LV remodeling and improvement of MR and TR. However, right ventricular function does not improve and prevalence of AR progressively increases during mechanical support.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- heart failure
- acute myocardial infarction
- mitral valve
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- risk factors
- magnetic resonance
- contrast enhanced
- pulmonary hypertension
- magnetic resonance imaging
- mesenchymal stem cells
- replacement therapy
- percutaneous coronary intervention