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Showing papers by "John P. Boehmer published in 2011"


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TL;DR: Every effort should be made to reduce native atrioventricular conduction with cardiac resynchronization therapy systems in an attempt to achieve biventricular pacing as close to 100% as possible.

323 citations


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TL;DR: Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter by transthoracic echo at presentation was the strongest predictor of LVEF at 6 months and was most predictive of subsequent myocardial recovery in subjects with recent onset cardiomyopathy.

187 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that the use of LVADs has been shown to improve survival in patients with end-stage heart failure, and implanted permanently as destination treatment.
Abstract: LVADs have been shown to improve survival in patients with end-stage heart failure. Initially developed as a bridge to transplantation, LVADs are now implanted permanently as destination treatment ...

1 citations