UCARS 2021 - Feature Oral Abstracts

1. Michael Bonios, MD - Prolonged Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Counterpulsation Optimizes Right Ventricular Function Before LVAD Implantation

2. Wouter Derks, post-doctoral - Cardiomyocyte turnover, ploidy and cell cycle activity in the mechanical unloaded heart

3. Trevor Snyder, PhD - The CorWave Pulsatile Membrane LVAD, a New Tool for Cardiac Recovery, Update and Progress

4. Arvind Bhimaraj, MD - Role of Endothelial and Mesenchymal cell transitions in heart failure and recovery thereafter

5. Michael Brener, MD - Right Ventricular Pressure-Volume Analysis during LVAD Speed Optimization Studies: Insights into Interventricular Interactions and Right Ventricular Failure

6. Eleanor Gerhard, MS - Sustainability of Myocardial Recovery and Long-Term Adverse Events Following LVAD Decommissioning

7. Shelley Hall, MD - Prolonged Support with Temporary VAD for Native Heart Recovery

8. Misato Chimura - Myocardial Technetium-99m sestamibi uptake is useful to identify the myocardial reversibility in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in Stage C and D

9. Eleni Tseliou, MD - Phenotyping a new heart failure patient group: Methamphetamine Induced Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (MethrEF)

 Recorded from live event on 3/18/2021