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Elizabeth D. Blume
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 194
Citations - 10460
Elizabeth D. Blume is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transplantation & Heart transplantation. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 178 publications receiving 9152 citations. Previous affiliations of Elizabeth D. Blume include University of Arkansas & University of Pittsburgh.
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Seventh INTERMACS annual report: 15,000 patients and counting
James K. Kirklin,David C. Naftel,Francis D. Pagani,Robert L. Kormos,Lynne W. Stevenson,Elizabeth D. Blume,Susan L. Myers,Marissa A. Miller,J. Timothy Baldwin,James B. Young +9 more
TL;DR: The seventh annual report of the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) summarizes the first 9 years of patient enrollment and a detailed analysis of outcomes after mechanical circulatory support for ambulatory heart failure is presented.
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Eighth annual INTERMACS report: Special focus on framing the impact of adverse events.
James K. Kirklin,Francis D. Pagani,Robert L. Kormos,Lynne W. Stevenson,Elizabeth D. Blume,Susan L. Myers,Marissa A. Miller,J. Timothy Baldwin,James B. Young,David C. Naftel +9 more
TL;DR: Greater application of durable devices to patients with ambulatory heart failure will mandate more effective neutralization or prevention of major adverse events.
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Sixth INTERMACS annual report: a 10,000-patient database.
James K. Kirklin,David C. Naftel,Francis D. Pagani,Robert L. Kormos,Lynne W. Stevenson,Elizabeth D. Blume,Marissa A. Miller,J.T. Baldwin,James B. Young +8 more
TL;DR: A comparison of two eras of continuous-flow durable devices in the USA in terms of device strategy, patient profiles, adverse event burden, survival and quality of life is featured.
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Carvedilol for children and adolescents with heart failure: A randomized controlled trial
Robert E. Shaddy,Robert E. Shaddy,Mark M. Boucek,Daphne T. Hsu,Robert J. Boucek,Charles E. Canter,Lynn Mahony,Robert D. Ross,Elfriede Pahl,Elizabeth D. Blume,Debra A. Dodd,David N. Rosenthal,Jeri Burr,Bernie LaSalle,Richard Holubkov,Mary Ann Lukas,Lloyd Y. Tani +16 more
TL;DR: Preliminary results suggest that carvedilol does not significantly improve clinical heart failure outcomes in children and adolescents with symptomatic systolic heart failure and may have been underpowered.
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Waiting List Mortality Among Children Listed for Heart Transplantation in the United States
Christopher S. Almond,Ravi R. Thiagarajan,Gary Piercey,Kimberlee Gauvreau,Elizabeth D. Blume,H. Bastardi,Francis Fynn-Thompson,Tajinder P. Singh +7 more
TL;DR: Looking list mortality since the pediatric heart allocation system was revised in 1999 is examined to determine whether the revised allocation system is prioritizing patients optimally and to identify specific high-risk populations that may benefit from emerging pediatric cardiac assist devices.