U-CARS 2024 - Session 3: Myocardial Improvement and Heart Failure Remission

Chairs: Ulrich Jorde, MD, Montefiore/Einstein; Bojan Vrtovec, MD, PhD, Ljublijana University, Slovenia; Ashwin Lal, MD, Primary Children's

State-of-the-art-lecture: GDMT and HF with improved/recovered ejection fraction: knows and unknowns in 2024 - Clyde Yancy, MD, Northwestern

1. Echocardiographic changes during chronic MCS therapy and their impact on outcomes - Jerry Estep, MD - Cleveland Clinic Florida
2. INTERMACS studies: incidence of echocardiographic cardiac recovery is many tiimes higher than the LVAD weaning incidence. What are the causes of underutilization of LVAD weaning for cardiac recovery and how to address them? - Manreet Kanwar, MD - Allegheny
3. ACTION Pediatric Network: children in need for advanced HF therapies - what are their options? - Angela Lorts, MD - Cincinnati Children's/U of Cincinnati
4. LVAD mediated myocardial recovery - Craig Selzman, MD - U of U
5. Translational and clinical future directions - Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD - U of U