LVAD Strategy Reflects Emotional Functioning after Implant

With an increased prevalence of anxiety and depression in advanced heart failure, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation has recently been shown to mitigate some of these mental health issues by improved functional capacity and quality of life (QOL). There is mixed data available regarding LVAD strategy, so our aim was to compare emotional wellbeing between destination therapy (DT) and bridge to transplant (BTT) post LVAD based on existing QOL tools and preliminary data from a new tool, Quality of Life with a Left Ventricular Assist Device (QOLVAD).
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: 1112 Source Type: research