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Heart Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , Heart-Lung Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , International Agencies/statistics & numerical data , Lung Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , Registries , Humans , Outcome Assessment, Health Care/statistics & numerical data , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical dataSubject(s)
Heart Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , Heart-Lung Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , Lung Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , Registries/statistics & numerical data , Societies, Medical/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Child , Humans , Medical Records/statistics & numerical dataSubject(s)
Heart Transplantation , Internationality , Lung Transplantation , Registries , Research Design/trends , Societies, Medical , HumansSubject(s)
Databases, Factual , Heart-Assist Devices/statistics & numerical data , Heart-Lung Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , Annual Reports as Topic , Heart-Assist Devices/adverse effects , Humans , International Agencies , Multivariate Analysis , Registries , Risk Factors , Societies, Medical , Survival Analysis , Treatment OutcomeSubject(s)
Heart-Lung Transplantation/statistics & numerical data , International Agencies , Registries , Societies, Medical , Annual Reports as Topic , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Health Personnel , Heart Failure/surgery , Humans , International Agencies/statistics & numerical data , Lung Diseases/surgery , Societies, Medical/organization & administration , United Kingdom/epidemiology , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Over the last 2 decades, mechanical circulatory support devices have been developed with the goal of supporting patients with advanced heart failure as a bridge to cardiac transplantation, a bridge to recovery, and an alternative to transplantation (also called chronic or destination therapy). The current generation of devices provides a differentiated spectrum of circulatory support. The major limitations of mechanical circulatory support devices are infection, coagulopathies and device dysfunction. The Scientific Council on Mechanical Circulatory Support of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation has established an international database to generate critical data to advance knowledge about the effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support device therapy for one of the most difficult and costly contemporary medical problems, the malignant syndrome of advanced heart failure.