Open AccessCardiothoracic Morphology Measures in Heart Failure Patients to Inform Device Designs
Author(s) -
Mona Saffarzadeh,
James P. Gaewsky,
Joshua C. Tan,
Ryan Lahm,
Bharathi Upadhya,
Geoffrey Jao,
Ashley A. Weaver
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cardiovascular engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1869-4098
pISSN - 1869-408X
DOI - 10.1007/s13239-019-00436-z
Subject(s) - heart failure , cardiology , ejection fraction , medicine , coronal plane , sternum , surgery , radiology
Approximately 5.7 million people in the US are affected by congestive heart failure. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate cardiothoracic morphology and variability within a cohort of heart failure patients for the purpose of optimally engineering cardiac devices for a variety of heart failure patients.