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Get With the Guidelines in ED Patients With Heart Failure (External Link)
Heart failure (HF) is common and growing healthcare concern. Heart failure affects nearly 6 million Americans. It results in over one million annual hospital discharges as the primary discharge diagnosis …
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Individual Blood Pressure Optimization Based on Cerebral Autoregulation After Implantation of Continuous-flow LVAD (External Link)
Preoperative data will be collected as the baseline information through chart review and patient interview before the surgery as follows: patient demographics, co-morbidities, medication, preoperative laboratory results, and preoperative vital …
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Assessment Of Educational Strategies In Heart Failure Patients Presenting To The Emergency Department For Care (External Link)
In 2015, 12.8% of adults ages 19-64 in the United States lacked any form of health insurance. An even greater number fell under the umbrella of under-insured. Studies indicate that …
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Biomarker Guided Therapies in Stage A/B Heart Failure (External Link)
Recently the investigators have shown that HF risk prediction can be improved using cardiac troponin T measured with a novel high-sensitivity assay (hs-cTnT) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). Furthermore, …
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The IMPULSE Study: Pilot (External Link)
Continuous-flow (CF) left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are an important tool in the treatment of end-stage heart failure, affording patients significantly improved quantity and quality of life. In recent years, …
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Development & Testing of a Decision Aid for LVAD Placement (External Link)
The goal of this project is to develop a patient-centered decision aid for decision-making about end-stage heart failure treatment. This study seeks to create a decision aid that presents outcomes, …
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Collaborative Care for Heart Failure Patients With the Metabolic Syndrome (External Link)
A striking feature of the Harris County Hospital District heart failure population is that the prevalence of obesity (50.8%) and the metabolic syndrome (48.9%) exceeds that of the general U.S. …
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The Effect of Diet and Exercise in Heart Failure (External Link)
A growing number of people in this country are overweight or obese. This is concerning as increasing weight has been shown to increase the risk of developing heart failure. However, …
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A Culturally Sensitive Values-Guided Aid for End of Life Decision-Making (External Link)
Background: End-of-life decision-making is an important aspect of providing quality healthcare, especially for the elderly population. Increasingly, the appropriateness of many of these decisions is being questioned. Some invasive procedures …
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Novel Treatment for Diastolic Heart Failure in Women (External Link)
Subjects with diastolic heart failure defined based on clinical symptoms, echocardiography diastology parameters and brain natriuretic peptide level will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion to either placebo or spironolactone …
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