Biopsy techniques
Chapter 8 Biopsy techniques Samuel V. Kemp Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Correspondence: Samuel V. Kemp, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Fulham Road, London,…
Minimally invasive endosonographic techniques: combined EBUS and EUS
Chapter 9 Minimally invasive endosonographic techniques: combined EBUS and EUS Pravachan V.C. Hegde1 and Moishe Liberman2 1Advanced Interventional Thoracic Endoscopy/Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, University of California…
Surveillance Echocardiography for LVAD Patients
Pericardial effusion With or without cardiac tamponade including RV compression. Tamponade: respirophasic flow changes; poor RVOT SV LV failure secondary to partial LV unloading (by serial exam comparison) (a) 2D/3D: increasing…
Long-Term Complications of Ventricular Assist Devices
Fig. 17.1 Estimated actuarial survival (continuous-flow LVAD therapy vs. pulsatile-flow LVAD therapy ). Modified with permission from Hindawi Publishing Corporation [33] Fig. 17.2 Comparison of adverse event rates of continuous-flow…
Management of Fluid Balance and Perioperative Renal Complications
Fig. 9.1 Kaplan-Meier estimates of the rates of death at 3 years from cardiovascular (CV) causes, re-infarction, congestive heart failure (CHF), stroke, resuscitation after cardiac arrest, and the composite end point,…
Optimization of Right Ventricular Function Preoperatively for LVAD Implantation
Fig. 3.1 (a) The inlet, trabeculated apical myocardium and infundibulum of the RV. The tricuspid and pulmonary valves are separated by the ventriculoinfundibular fold (VIF). (b) Short-axis plane of the…
Chronic Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Fig. 10.1 HeartMate II left ventricular assist device . CT scan film demonstrating appearance of the device on radiography, which is important to recognize in patients with long-term devices in…
Perioperative Management of LVAD Patients
Complication % of cases Right heart failure 10–39%; up to 50% when LVAD emergently placed Respiratory failure 6–40% Cerebral vascular accident 10–15% Transient ischemic attack 4–12% Delirium 10% Renal failure…
History of Mechanical Circulatory Support
Fig. 1.1 Domingo Liotta and the Liotta Artificial Heart (1969) The meaningful pursuit of heart replacement began in 1964 when Dr. Michael DeBakey secured funding, mainly through the auspices of…
LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Extraperitoneal Approach
Fig. 5.1 Insertion of LVAD in extraperitoneal and extra-pericardial pocket Device Tunneling The LVAD is then screwed to the tunneler which is brought into the incision and through the fascia…
