Open AccessLeft ventricular assist device therapy: the Kuwait experience
Author(s) -
Riyad Tarazi,
Mustafa Ridha,
Mohammad Shammsah,
Khaldoon Al-Humood,
Jean Tesreni,
Mohamed Badawy,
Abdallah S.R. Mohamed,
Adel Maher
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2017.12.54
Subject(s) - medicine , destination therapy , heart failure , ventricular assist device , economic shortage , artificial heart , heart transplantation , bridge to transplantation , transplantation , surgery , cardiology , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
Heart Failure is an epidemic with a current prevalence of over 5.8 million patients in the USA and almost 23 million patients worldwide, with high associated mortality risks. The severe shortage of donor organs for cardiac transplants and increasing number of heart failure patients has led to the increasing popularity of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy for treatment of end-stage heart failure patients. This paper describes our initial clinical experience with LVAD therapy of heart failure patients at our clinic.