Mechanical Circulatory Support for Advanced Heart Failure

Jeffrey A. Morgan, MDChief, Division of Cardiothoracic TransplantationSurgical Director, Advanced Heart Failure CenterCHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical CenterTexas Heart Institute6770 Bertner Avenue, Suite C-355NHouston, TX 77030 Andrew Civitello, MDMedical Director, Heart Transplant ProgramCo-Director, Advanced Heart Failure CenterCHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical CenterTexas Heart Institute6620 Main Street, Suite 1225Houston, TX 77030 O.H. Frazier, MDChief, Center for Cardiac SupportCHI Baylor St. Luke's Medical CenterTexas Heart InstitutePO Box 20345, MC 2-114AHouston, TX 77225

History of Mechanical Circulatory Support.- Who is an Appropriate Candidate for Long-Term MCS: The Art of Patient Selection.- Optimization of Right Ventricular Function Pre-Operatively for LVAD Implantation.- Bridge-to-Bridge Strategies with IABP, Impella, and Tandem Heart.- LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Extra-Peritoneal Approach.- LVAD Surgical Implant Technique: Infra-Diaphragmatic Approach.- Intraoperative Anesthesia Management.- Perioperative Management of LVAD Patients.- Perioperative Optimization of a Patient's Fluid Status.- Chronic Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices.- Surveillance Echocardiography for LVAD Patients.- Diagnosis of Device Thrombosis.- Device Exchange: THI Technique Involving a Left Subcostal Approach.- Mechanical Circulatory Support to Bridge to a Long-term Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.- Outcomes Using LVADs for Destination Therapy.- Cardiac Regenerative Strategies for Advanced Heart Failure.- Long-Term Complications of Ventricular Assist Devices.- Right Ventricular Failure in Patients Undergoing LVAD Placement.

"This is an excellent and comprehensive book on a broad and complicated area in medicine. It is well thought out and written by some of the leaders in the field of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) therapy. ... This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date approach to patients with heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support. It will be a great resource for physicians in the field of heart failure." (Aditya Bansal, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2018)

“This is an excellent and comprehensive book on a broad and complicated area in medicine. It is well thought out and written by some of the leaders in the field of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) therapy. ... This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date approach to patients with heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support. It will be a great resource for physicians in the field of heart failure.” (Aditya Bansal, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2018)