15th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 20
Tuesday
Posters
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Sept. 20
Tuesday
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273 Variation in Right Heart Catheterization Use for Patients
Hospitalized with Heart Failure
Richard K. Cheng 1 , Haiyong Xu 2 , Carol Mangione 2 , Jose
Escarce 2 , Michael Ong 2 ; 1 Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA; 2 General Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, CA
274 Association of Soluble ST2, an Emerging Biomarker of
Heart Failure, with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Kismet Rasmusson 1 , Benjamin Horne 1 , Kim Brunisholz 1 , James
Januzzi 2 , Rami Alharethi 1 , Deborah Budge 1 , Oxana Galenko 1 ,
Josef Stehlik 3 , John Carlquist 1 , Jenny Connollly 1 , Stacey
Frampton 1 , Stephanie Moore 2 , Abdallah Kfoury 1 ; 1 Heart Failure
Prevention and Treatment Program, Intermountain Medical
Center, Salt Lake City, UT; 2 Heart Failure and Transplant,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 3 Heart Failure
and Transplant, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
275 Type II Diabetes Is Associated with Sleep Continuity,
Variability in Wake Time, and Excess Daytime Sleepiness
in Patients with Stable Heart Failure
Nancy S. Redeker 1 , Sangchoon Jeon 1 ; 1 School of Nursing, Yale
University, New Haven, CT
276 Symptom Recognition and Decision To Seek Care by
Both Chronic Heart Failure Patients and Their Family
Caregivers/Significant Others Prior to Hospitalization
Jill R. Quinn 1 , Leway Chen 2 , Judy Brasch 1 , Joyce A. Smith 1 ,
Rebecca Tucker 1 , Ding-Geng Chen 1 ; 1 School of Nursing,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; 2 School of Medicine
and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
277 Sex Differences in the Obesity Paradox of Systolic Heart
Failure?
Adrienne L. Clark 1 , Tamara B. Horwich 2 ; 1 David Geffen
School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA; 2 Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center,
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
278 Prognostic Importance of Serial Evaluation of Blood
Urea Nitrogen in Ambulatory Patients with Chronic
Systolic Heart Failure and Preserved Renal Function
Clay A. Cauthen 1 , Matthew Tong 2 , Yuping Wu 3 , Anil Jain 4 ,
W.H. Wilson Tang 1 ; 1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; 2 Department
of Internal Medicine, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering,
OH; 3 Department of Mathematics, Cleveland State University,
Cleveland, OH; 4 Division of Information Technology, Cleveland
Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
279 Predictors of 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in Patients
with Heart Failure (HF)
Manreet Kanwar 1 , Daniel Spinuzzi 2 , Diane Vido 1 , Raymond
Benza 1 , Srinivas Murali 1 , George Sokos 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Allegheny
General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; 2 Internal Medicine, Allegheny
General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
280 Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes for Hospitalized
Heart Failure (HF) Patients with Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Findings from OPTIMIZE-
HF
R.J. Mentz 1 , M. Fiuzat 1 , D. Wojdyla 1 , K. Chiswell 1 , K. Pieper 1 ,
M. Gheorghiade 2 , G.C. Fonarow 3 , C.M. O’Connor 1 ; 1 Duke
Univ, Durham, NC; 2 Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL; 3 UCLA
Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
281 Long-Term Follow-Up of Stem Cell Therapy after Acute
Myocardial Infarction
Suzana A. Alves 1 , Sabrina B. Pereira 1 , Rose Frajtag 1 , Rodrigo
C. Moreira 1 , Andre L.S. Souza 1 , Andrea Haddad 1 , Fabio Tuche 1 ,
Karla Menezes 1 , Radovan Borojevic 2 , Hans F. Dohmann 1 ;
1
Procardíaco Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2 Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
319 Do Advanced Practice Nurses Conform to Heart Failure
Therapies at the Same Rate as Team-Based Physicians?
Nancy M. Albert 1 , Maureen O’Malley 1 , Benjamin Nutter 1 ,
Randall Starling 1 ; 1 Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
320 Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hypertension:
Comparison of Stress Echocardiography to Right Heart
Catheterization
Karthik Gujja 1 , Deepika Misra 1 , Christine Roncari 1 , Roxana
Sulica 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
321 Complex Telemonitoring or a Simple Telephone Call,
Which Is More Effective in Post-Discharge Heart Failure
(HF) Management?
Robyn A. Clark 1 , Sally C. Inglis 2 , Finlay A. McAllister 3 ,
Simon Stewart 4 , John G.F. Cleland 5 , Cochrane Heart Group 5 ;
1
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;
2
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; 3 University
of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; 4 Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes
Institute, Melbourne, Australia; 5 Castle Hill Hospital, Hull,
United Kingdom
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