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A case report of a 27-year-old man receiving a Total Artificial Heart demonstrates that successful cardiovascular medicine requires the person-person encounter as a core practice element.
Case Report (n=1)
This perspective highlights the importance of incorporating the patient's personhood perspective (Relational Medicine) in advanced heart failure therapies like Total Artificial Heart implantation.
Supports relational medicine in TAH care; leaves open validation in prospective studies.
In the US population of 300 million, 3 million have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and 300,000 have advanced heart failure. Long-term mechanical circulatory support will, within the next decade, be recommended to 30,000 patients annually in the USA, 3000 undergo heart transplantation annually. What do these advances mean for persons suffering from advanced heart failure and their loved ones/caregivers? In this perspective article, we discuss - by exemplifying a case report of a 27-year-old man receiving a Total Artificial Heart - a practice concept of modern medicine that fully incorporates the patient's personhood perspective which we have termed Relational Medicine™. From this case study, it becomes apparent that the successful practice of modern cardiovascular medicine requires the person-person encounter as a core practice element.
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Raia et al. (2016) conducted a case report in advanced heart failure (n=1). Total Artificial Heart was evaluated. A case report of a 27-year-old man receiving a Total Artificial Heart demonstrates that successful cardiovascular medicine requires the person-person encounter as a core practice element.
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