SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A novel percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) appears to offer comparable safety to an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) when offering hemodynamic stabilization in elective, ...

If labor doesn’t start on its own, doctors and midwives can use different techniques to get it started so you can give birth. This is called inducing labor, and there are different reasons for doing ...

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1 Division of Cardiovascular Intensive Care, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan 2 Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics, National ...

IABP systems are typically inserted within the multidisciplinary environment that is the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The specific role of the physiologist during IABP insertion is to ensure ...

Interv Cardiol. 2012;4(2):211-234. Early inflation Balloon inflates before aortic valve closes – the left ventricle is therefore forced to empty against an inflated balloon. There is an increase in ...

The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter allows specialists to diagnose or test for major heart issues without requiring you to undergo major surgery. Usually, it’s a diagnostic tool for people in ...

Implantation of an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) did not improve 60-day survival or bridge to heart replacement (HRT) therapies in patients with heart failure-cardiogenic shock (HF-CS) compared to ...

The Altshock-2 trial showed that routine early IABP plus standard care, vs. standard care only, did not significantly improve 60-day survival or successful bridging to HRT in patients with HF-CS.

INTRODUCTION: Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) insertion can augment cardiac function in the setting of acutely decompensated heart failure. The aim of this study was to determine if IABP insertion ...