15th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 19
Monday
Posters
Posters
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
Posters
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
Sept. 19
Monday
Posters
MondAY
283 Impact of a Heart Failure “Teach to Goal” Intervention
in Low Literacy Patients
Aurelia Macabasco-O’Connell 1 , Adriana Mendez 1 , Michael
Pignone 2 ; 1 School of Nursing, University of California Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 2 Department of Medicine, University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
284 Different Features of the Apical and Non-Apical Types of
Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy
Sun Hwa Lee 1 , Won Ho Kim 1 , Jae Ki Ko 1 , Yun Ji Park 1 , Lae
Young Jung 1 , Min Ju Song 1 , Hae Eun Yun 1 ; 1 Cardiology,
Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Korea
285 Significant Barriers Exist in the Appropriate Utilization
of Echo Contrast Agents in the Heart Failure Population
Sara L. Partington 1 , Shelley Hurwitz 1 , Judy R. Mangion 1 ;
1
Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, Boston, MA
286 Ketamine-Induced Ventricular Remodeling: Pathological
Consequences and Protective Effects of Metoprolol
Y. Li, J. Shi, B.F. Yang, Z.H. Gong, W.M. Li; Harbin Medical
University, Harbin, China; Harbin Medical University, Harbin,
China; Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China; Harbin
Medical University, Harbin, China; Harbin Medical University,
Harbin, China
287 The Swan-Ganz Catheter and UNOS IA Patients: The
Routine Change Challange
Jason A. Gluck 1 , Roja Mulamalla 1 , Joseph Radojevic 1 , Justin
Lundbye 1 , Detlef Wencker 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Hartford Hosptial,
Hartford, CT
288 Are Telemonitoring and Structured Telephone Support
More Effective in Younger or Older Heart Failure
Patients? A Sensitivity Analysis from a Cochrane Review
Sally C. Inglis 1 , Robyn A. Clark 2 , Simon Stewart 3 , Finlay A.
McAlister 4 , John G.F. Cleland 5 ; 1 University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia; 2 Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia; 3 Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute,
Melbourne, Australia; 4 University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada; 5 Castle Hill Hospital, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom
289 HF Assessment with BNP in the Home: Primary Results
of the Mulitcenter HABIT Trial
Alan S. Maisel 1 , Denise Banard 2 , Brian Jaski 3 , Geir Frivold 4 ,
John Marais 5 , Barry Greenberg 2 ; 1 Medicine, San Diego VA
Medical Center, San Diego, CA; 2 University of California San
Diego, San Diego, CA; 3 San Diego Sharp Medical Center, San
Diego, CA; 4 Loma Linda Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA
290 Fatigue Correlates to Functional Status Better Than
Dyspnea or Orthopnea
Jesal Popat 1 , Maya Guglin 1 ; 1 Department of Cardiovascular
Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
291 Utilisation of Telehome Monitoring in Patients over the
Age of 75 with Complex Heart Failure; Does Age Make
Any Difference?
Genevieve Lemay 1 , Nahid Azad 2 , Christine Struthers 3 ; 1 Internal
Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; 2 Geriatric
Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada; 3 The Heart
Institute, Ottawa, Canada
292 Biofeedback Training in Patients with Advanced Heart
Failure
Dana L. Frank 1 , Matthew Baumann 1 , Michael Liebenstein 1 ,
Lamees Khorshid 1 , Gregory J. Bolwell 1 , Jerome Kiffer 1 , W.H.
Wilson Tang 1 , James B. Young 1 , Randall C. Starling 1 , Michael G.
McKee 1 , Christine S. Moravec 1 ; 1 Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,
OH
293 Lack of Association of Changes in BNP with Cardiorenal
Syndrome during Treatment of Acute Decompensated
Heart Failure
Sameer Ather 1 , Mark D. McCauley 1 , Amandeep Dhaliwal 1 , Anita
Deswal 1,2 , Wenyaw Chan 3 , David Aguilar 1,2 , Allison M. Pritchett 1 ,
Kumudha Ramasubbu 1,2 , Xander H.T. Wehrens 1 , Biykem
Bozkurt 1,2 ; 1 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2 Michael
E DeBakey VA Hospital, Houston, TX; 3 UT School of Public
Health, Houston, TX
294 Changes in Galectin-3 Levels over Time Predict
Mortality and Morbidity in Chronic HF
Rudolf A. de Boer 2 , Dirk J. van Veldhuisen 2 , Lars Gullestad 3 ,
Thor Ueland 3 , Pal Aukrust 3 , Yu Guo 1 , Aram S. Adourian 1 ,
Pieter Muntendam 1 ; 1 BG Medicine Inc., Waltham, MA;
2
University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands;
3
Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
295 Emergency Department Diuretic Dosing in Acute
Decompensated Heart Failure and Its Effect on Length
of Stay and Re-Admission Rate
Jacqueline Fearon-Clarke 1 , Simarta Brennan 1 , Rami Bustami 1 ,
Betty Merveil-Ceneus 1 , Bernardo Vargas 1 , Rosmery Montesino 1 ,
Steven Sheris 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute at
Overlook Hospital, Atlantic Health, Summit, NJ
296 A Multi-Disciplinary Hospital to Home Initiative To
Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions
Zachary L. Cox 1,2 , Brittany L. Cunningham 1 , Thomas DiSalvo 1 ;
1
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN;
2
Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy, Nashville, TN
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