Journal
LIFE-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life12091298
Keywords
advanced heart failure; mechanical circulatory support; heart transplantation; shock
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Advanced heart failure can occur at different levels of left ventricular ejection fraction, and accurate assessment of LV function and size is crucial for patient management. Traditional treatments may be ineffective, requiring more advanced interventions such as mechanical circulatory support or heart transplantation.
Advanced heart failure (HF) may occur at any level of left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF). The latter, which is widely utilized for the evaluation of LV systolic performance and treatment guidance of HF patients, is heavily influenced by LV size and geometry. As the accurate evaluation of ventricular systolic function and size is crucial in patients with advanced HF, the LVEF should be supplemented or even replaced by more specific indices of LV function such as the systolic strain and cardiac power output and size such as the LV diastolic diameters and volumes. Conventional treatment (cause eradication, medications, devices) is often poorly tolerated and fails and advanced treatment (mechanical circulatory support [MCS], heart transplantation [HTx]) is required. The effectiveness of MCS is heavily dependent on heart size, whereas HTx which is effective in the vast majority of the cases is limited by the small donor pool. Expanding the MCS indications to include patients with small ventricles as well as the HTx donor pool are major challenges in the management of advanced HF.
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