Why the study?
Does biventricular support successfully bridge patients with refractory cardiogenic shock to heart transplantation?
Population
19 patients with acute or chronic heart failure unresponsive to maximal medical therapy, in profound…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
average 22 days (range 0-91 days) of support
Authors
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May support biventricular support for bridging refractory cardiogenic shock to transplant; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Does biventricular support successfully bridge patients with refractory cardiogenic shock to heart transplantation?
Biventricular support can be used to successfully bridge a majority of moribund patients with refractory cardiogenic shock directly to heart transplantation.
Magliato et al. (2002) studied this question.
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