Rescuing the right ventricle: A conceptual framework to target new interventions for patients receiving a durable left ventricular assist device

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2023 Jun;165(6):2126-2131. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2022.03.025. Epub 2022 Apr 7.

Michigan Congestive Heart Failure Investigators:
Donald S Likosky, Francis D Pagani, Ashraf Shaaban Abdel Aziz Abou El Ela, Paul C Tang, Michael P Thompson, Robert B Hawkins, Peter Sassalos, Pierre-Emmanuel Noly, Keith Aaronson, Supriya Shore, Thomas Cascino, Min Zhang, Jeffrey S McCullough, Grace Chung, Michelle Hou, Allison M Janda, Michael R Mathis, Tessa M F Watt, Michael J Pienta, Alexander Brescia, Gardner L Yost, James William Stewart 2nd, Austin Airhart, Daniel Liesman, Khalil Nassar

¹ Section of Health Services Research and Quality, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich.
⁴ Section of Health Services Research and Quality, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Axes for future research in right heart failure after LVAD implantation.

Keywords: conceptual framework; hemodynamics; left ventricular assist device; right heart failure.