Impact of Diabetes and Glycemia on Cardiac Improvement and Adverse Events Following Mechanical Circulatory Support.
Christos P KyriakopoulosIosif TalebEleni TseliouKonstantinos SiderisRana HamoucheEleni ManetaMarisca NelsonEthan KrauspeSean SelkoJoseph R ViskerElizabeth DranowMatthew L GoodwinRami AlharethiOmar Wever-PinzonJames C FangJosef StehlikCraig H SelzmanThomas C HanffStavros G DrakosPublished in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
Type 2 diabetes and pre-LVAD glycemia modify the potential for functional cardiac improvement and the risk for adverse events on LVAD support. The degree and duration of pre-LVAD glycemic control optimization to favorably affect these outcomes warrants further investigation.