Afterload Sensitivity of Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Abolition of Frank-Starling Forces Under Strain

Circ Heart Fail. 2020 Feb;13(2):e006787. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.119.006787. Epub 2020 Feb 14.
No abstract available

Keywords: arterial pressure; hemodynamics; hypotension; pulmonary wedge pressure; pulsatile flow.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Heart Failure / diagnosis
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology
  • Heart Failure / therapy*
  • Heart-Assist Devices*
  • Hemodynamics*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Prosthesis Implantation / instrumentation*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Function, Left*