Key result
Device and interventional therapies, including left ventricular reconstruction, aortic counterpulsation, and mechanical circulatory support, provide crucial treatment options for patients with acute and chronic heart failure.
This review outlines the landscape of device therapies and interventions for patients with advanced heart failure who remain symptomatic despite medical therapy.
Device therapies offer options for advanced HF; leaves open need for RCTs on selection and outcomes.
Heart failure is a growing epidemic, with more patients living longer and suffering from this disease. There is a growing segment of patients who have persistent symptoms despite pharmacologic therapy. In an era when transplants are rare, the need for devices and interventions that can assist ventricular function is paramount. This review goes through the devices used in heart failure, including left ventricular reconstruction, aortic counterpulsation, short-term mechanical circulatory support, long-term mechanical circulatory support, and right heart interventions.
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Gafoor et al. (2015) conducted a review in Heart failure. Heart failure devices (LV reconstruction, counterpulsation, mechanical circulatory support) was evaluated. Device and interventional therapies, including left ventricular reconstruction, aortic counterpulsation, and mechanical circulatory support, provide crucial treatment options for patients with acute and chronic heart failure.
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