Download - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 14
Monday
Posters
Posters
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
Posters
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
Sept. 14
Monday
Posters
Monday
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NT-proBNP Measurements at Discharge and Post-
Hospitalization May Aid Allocation of Follow-Up
Strategies
Alexandra A. Bennett 1,2 , Graham R.D. Jones 2,3 , Peter S.
Macdonald 2,3 , Jo-anne Brien 1,2 , 3 ; 1 Faculty of Pharmacy, University
of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 2 St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney,
Australia; 3 Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW, Sydney,
Australia
Noninvasive Evaluation of Systemic Vascular Resistance
and Cardiac Output Would Provide the Most Optimal
Drug Selection in Patients with Acute Decompensated
Heart Failure
Masataka Watanabe 1 , Kazuhiko Hashimura 1 , Takahiro Ohara 1 ,
Makoto Amaki 1 , Takuya Hasegawa 1 , Hiroyuki Yokoyama 1 ,
Hideaki Kanzaki 1 , Masafumi Kitakaze 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular
Division of Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita,
Osaka, Japan
A Multidisciplinary Team Management Program to
Decrease Re-Hospitalization in CHF Patients
Casey Lawler 1 , Justin Kirven 1 , Pam Rush 1 , Steve Bergeson 1 ;
1
Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital,
Minneapolis, MN
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P366
Hf Family Caregiver Outcomes and Associated Factors
Sandra B. Dunbar 1 , Patricia C. Clark 2 , Rebecca A. Gary 1 ,
Christina Quinn 1 , Carolyn M. Reilly 1 , Andrew Smith 3 , Melinda
Higgins 1 ; 1 Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA; 2 Brydine Lewis School of Nursing,
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; 3 School of Medicine,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Hemodynamic Differences in Ambulatory Heart Failure
Patients with Low vs High Heart Rates
William T. Abraham 1 , Yong K. Cho 2 , Robert T. Taepke 2 , Tom D.
Bennett 2 , Philip B. Adamson 3 , Robert C. Bourge 4 ; 1 Department
of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH; 2 CRDM Research, Medtronic, Inc., Mounds View, MN;
3
Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates, Oklahoma City, OK;
4
Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL
Does Improvement in Ejection Fraction Imply Recovery
of Normal Myocardial Function
Marwan M. Mohammad, Amanda K. Lesinski, Binkley
F. Philip; The Dorothy M.Davis Heart Lung Institute,
Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH
Monday
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Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Patients at the Time of
Their Network Entry Visit to Specialized Heart Failure
Outpatient Clinics in the Canadian Heart Failure
Network (CHFN) 1999 to 2007
Malcolm Arnold, Andrew Ignaszewski, Haissam Haddad,
Jonathan Howlett, Marie-Helene LeBlanc, Canadian Heart
Failure Network; Cardiology, University of Western Ontario,
London, ON; Cardiology, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC;
Cardiology, Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON; Cardiology,
Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB; Cardiology, Quebec Heart
Institute, Quebec City, QC
ß-Blocker Therapy Is Associated with Increased
Re-Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Women with
Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction
S. Morteza Farasat 1 , Dennis T. Bolger 2 , Veena Shetty 1 , Elizabeth
P. Menachery 2 , Gary Gerstenblith 2 , Edward K. Kasper 2 ,
Samer S. Najjar 3 ; 1 NIA-ASTRA at Harbor Hospital, MedStar
Research Institute, Baltimore, MD; 2 Department of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; 3 Laboratory of
Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, NIH,
Baltimore, MD
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Pulmonary Artery Catheter Use in the Management of
Critically Ill Patients at an Academic Medical Center
Thomas S. Metkus 1 , Kenneth B. Christopher 1 ; 1 Department of
Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
The Role of Questionnaire Scores and Laboratory Test
Results in Identifying Hospitalizations and Deaths of
Patients with Heart Failure
Leonidas V. Athanasopoulos 1 , Athanasios Dritsas 1 , Dennis
V. Cokkinos 1 ; 1 1st Cardiology Department, Onassis Cardiac
Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
Comorbid Renal Disease and Treatment Adherence Are
Determinants of Symptom Recognition and Treatment in
Patients with Symptomatic Heart Failure
Christopher S. Lee 1 , Barbara Riegel 1 ; 1 Univ. of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA
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