J. Timothy Baldwin

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.

TL;DR: Greater application of durable devices to patients with ambulatory heart failure will mandate more effective neutralization or prevention of major adverse events.

TL;DR: The Fourth Annual Report of the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) summarizes and analyzes the first 5 years of patient and data collection and provides a risk factor analysis of the entire adult primary implant population.

TL;DR: The Interagency Registry For Mechanical Circulatory Support, an NHLBI-sponsored collaboration between the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, and the advanced heart failure/mechanical circulatory support professional community, began prospective patient enrollment and data collection on June 23, 2006.

TL;DR: The third annual report of the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) provides documentation of the current landscape of durable mechanical circulatory support in the United States.