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
297 Plasma Galectin-3 Is Associated with Near-Term
Rehospitalization in Heart Failure: A Meta-Analysis
Rudolf A. de Boer 1 , Dirk J. van Veldhuisen 1 , Christopher
deFilippi 2 , Pieter Muntendam 3 , Aram S. Adourian 3 , Yu Guo 3 ,
James L. Januzzi 4 ; 1 University Medical Centre Groningen,
Groningen, Netherlands; 2 Division of Cardiology, University
of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; 3 BG Medicine Inc., Waltham,
MA; 4 Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA
298 Design, Feasibility, and Clinical Characteristics of a
Novel Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Program
Sanjiv J. Shah 1 , Michael A. Burke 1 , Deepak Gupta 1 , Venkatesh
Anjan 1 , John B. O’Connell 1 , Mihai Gheorghiade 1 , Robert O.
Bonow 1 ; 1 Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine, Chicago, IL
299 Medical Management Guided by Pulmonary Artery
Pressures in NYHA Functional Class III Heart Failure
Patients
Maria Rosa Costanzo 1 , William T. Abraham 2 , Philip B.
Adamson 3 , Pam A. Cowart 4 , Kevin M. Corcoran 4 , Greg L.
Ginn 4 ; 1 Cardiology, Midwest Heart Foundation, Naperville, IL;
2
Cardiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 3 Cardiology,
Oklahoma Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, Oklahoma
City, OK; 4 CardioMEMS Inc, Atlanta, GA
300 Medication Management Strategies of Community Heart
Failure Programs in Australia
Alexandra A. Bennett 1,2 , Deborah Tong 1 , Patricia M. Davidson 3 ,
Andrew M. McLachlan 1,2 ; 1 Faculty of Pharmacy, The University
of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 2 Centre for Education and
Research on Ageing, The University of Sydney and Concord
General Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 3 Curtin
Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
301 Does the Interpretation of Fluid Threshold Crossings
Differ between Heart Failure and Non Heart Failure
Centers? Analysis from the OptiVol Care Pathway Study
Roy S. Small 1 , John Andriulli 2 , W.H. Wilson Tang 3 , J. Thomas
Heywood 4 , Clayton Miller 5 ; 1 Cardiology, The Heart Group
of Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, PA; 2 Cardiology,
University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey, Voorhees,
NJ; 3 Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland,
OH; 4 Cardiology, Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA;
5
Research, Medtronic, Mounds View, MN
302 Total Body Water Measured with BIVA (Bioelectrical
Impedance Vector Analysis) Predicts Outcome in
Patients Hospitalized with Acute Heart Failure
Carolyn Haunschild 1 , Paul Clopton 2 , Yang Xue 1 , Alan S. Maisel 1 ;
1
Cardiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego,
CA; 2 Cardiology, San Diego Veteran Affairs Healthcare System,
San Diego, CA
303 NT-proBNP Guided Therapy Improves the Quality of
Life in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure. Results
from the ProBNP Outpatient Tailored Chronic Heart
Failure Therapy Study
Anju Bhardwaj 1 , Shafiq U. Rehman 1 , Asim A. Mohammed 1 ,
Han-na Kim 1 , Linda Barajas 1 , Justine Barajas 1 , Stephanie A.
Moore 1 , Dorothy Sullivan 1 , James L. Januzzi 1 ; 1 Cardiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
304 Cardiomyopathy Characterized by Normal
Interventricular Septal Thickness in Amyloidosis:
Description of a New Entity
Rahul Suresh 1 , Patricia A. Pellikka 2 , Angela Dispenzieri 2 ,
Naveen L. Pereira 2 ; 1 Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, MN; 2 Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
305 H1N1 and De Novo Cardiac Dysfunction or
Exacerbation of Existing Cardiac Disease in Patients
Admitted to Hospital
Courtney A. Young, Sayeh Zielke, Debra L. Isaac; University of
Calgary, Calgary, AB
306 Correlation of Weight Change and Net Fluid Status as
Markers of Diuretic Efficacy
Zachary Cox 1,2 , Thomas DiSalvo 1 ; 1 Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, TN; 2 Lipscomb University College
of Pharmacy, Nashville, TN
307 Symptom-Monitoring and Treatment-Seeking Behaviors
in Japanese Patients with Heart Failure: A Multicenter
Study
Naoko Kato 1 , Koichiro Kinugawa 1 , Etsuko Nakayama 2 ,
Akiko Hatakeyama 2 , Yumiko Kumagai 2 , Taro Shiga 1 , Masaru
Hatano 1 , Atsushi Yao 1 , Chikako Miura 2 , Masayoshi Nagayama 3 ,
Tetsuya Sumiyoshi 3 , Ryozo Nagai 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular Medicine,
The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; 2 Nursing,
Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan; 3 Cardiology,
Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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