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SUBMITTER: Fried JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6148415 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fried Justin A JA Nair Abhinav A Takeda Koji K Clerkin Kevin K Topkara Veli K VK Masoumi Amirali A Yuzefpolskaya Melana M Takayama Hiroo H Naka Yoshifumi Y Burkhoff Daniel D Kirtane Ajay A Karmpaliotis Dimitrios D Moses Jeffrey J Colombo Paolo C PC Garan A Reshad AR
The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 20180320 11
<h4>Background</h4>The role of the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) in acute decompensated heart failure (HF) with cardiogenic shock (CS) is largely undefined. In this study we sought to assess the hemodynamic and clinical response to IABP in chronic HF patients with CS and identify predictors of response to this device.<h4>Methods</h4>We retrospectively reviewed all patients undergoing IABP implantation from 2011 to 2016 at our institution to identify chronic HF patients with acute decompensati ...[more]