16th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 11
Tuesday
Posters
Posters
Electrophysiology and Rhythm Devices
Posters
Electrophysiology and Rhythm Devices
Sept. 11
Tuesday
Posters
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172 Optimal Atrio-Ventricular Delay in CRT Patients Can
Be Approximated from Surface ECG P-Wave Duration
Vadim Levin 1 , Mehdi Razavi 2 , Robert Call 3 , Alex Sambelashvili 3 ,
James Coles 3 ; 1 Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA; 2 Texas
Heart Institute/St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX;
3
Medtronic, Inc, Mounds View, MN
173 The Effect of Acute Volume Changes on Heart Rate
Variability
Roja R. Mulamalla 1 , Gowd Pampana 1 , Sood Nitesh 1 , Jason
Gluck 1 , Joseph Radojevic 1 , Christopher Clyne 1 , Wencker
Detlef 1 ; 1 Cardiology, University of Connecticut-Hartford
Hospital, Hartford, CT
174 Incidence of Appropriate and Inappropriate Shocks in
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Patients with
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Niyada Naksuk 1 , Adabag Selcuk 2 ; 1 Department of Medicine
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Medical School,
Minneapolis, MN; 2 Division of Cardiology, Veterans
Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
175 Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Is Beneficial to
Patients with Mild to Moderate Heart Failure
Tracy L. Webster 1 , Kelly L. Brooke 1 , Yong Hsiang Lee 1 , Avishay
Grupper 2 , Paul A. Friedman 1 , Brian D. Powell 1 , Micha Feinberg 2 ,
David Luria 2 , Yoni Buber 2 , David O. Hodge 1 , Heather J. Wiste 1 ,
Michael Glikson 2 , Yong-Mei Cha 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular Diseases,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2 Department of Electrophysiology
and Pacing, Heart Institute - Sheba Medical Center, Tal
Hashomer, Israel
176 The Effect of Atrial-Ventricular and Interventricular
Delays on Gas Exchange during Excercise
Chul-Ho Kim 1 , Yong-Mei Cha 1 , Lyle J. Olson 1 , Kathy A.
O’Malley 1 , Dean MacCarter 1 , Bruce D. Johnson 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular
Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
177 Are Unipolar Pacing Thresholds Lower Than Bipolar
Pacing Thresholds in Multipolar Left Ventricular Leads?
Imran Niazi 1 , Gery Tomassoni 2 , James Baker 3 , Raffaele
Corbisiero 4 , Charles Love 5 , David Martin 6 , Robert Sheppard 7 ,
Seth Worley 8 , Nicole Harbert 9 ; 1 Aurora Cardiovascular Services,
Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Centers, University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee,
WI; 2 Lexington Cardiology Consultants, Lexington, KY;
3
St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, TN; 4 Deborah Heart and
Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ; 5 The Ohio State University
Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 6 Lahey Clinic Medical Center,
Burlington, MA; 7 The Heart and Vascular Institute of Florida,
St. Petersburg, FL; 8 Lancaster Heart Foundation, Lancaster, PA;
9
St. Jude Medical Center, Sylmar, CA
178 Can Anodal Pacing Be Utilized To Reduce Energy
Requirements during Cardiac Resynchronization
Therapy?
Imran Niazi 1 , Kyungmoo Ryu 2 , Rebecca Dahme 2 , Indrajit
Choudhuri 1 , Arshad Jahangir 1 , Masood Akhtar 1 , Jasbir
Sra 1 ; 1 Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St.
Luke’s Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, WI; 2 St. Jude Medical
Inc., St. Paul, MN
179 Accumulative Premature Ventricular Contractions Can
Be a Predictor of Heart Failure Hospitalization
Omid Souresrafil 1 , Parviz Souresrafil 2 ; 1 SCH Cardiac Hospital/
University of Sydney, Maple Grove, MN; 2 Cardiology, SCH
Cardiac Hospital, Sydney, Australia
180 Epicardial Map of the Absolute QRST Integral in
Systolic Heart Failure with Left Bundle Branch Block:
Comparison with Native QRST Integral Map
Larisa G. Tereshchenko 1 , Fady Dawoud 1 , Markus Kowalsky 1 ,
Sindhoora Murthy 1 , Subham Ghosh 2 , Jeffrey Gillberg 2 , David
Spragg 1 , Ronald D. Berger 1 , Albert Lardo 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;
2
Medtronic, Inc, Minneapolis, MN
181 Incidence, Predictors and Outcomes Related to Hypo
and Hyperkalemia in Severe Heart Failure Patients
Treated with an Aldosterone Antagonist
Orly Vardeny 1 , DongHong Wu 2 , Brian Claggett 2 , Akshay Desai 2 ,
Patrick Rossignol 3 , Faiez Zannad 4 , Bertram Pitt 5 , Scott D.
Solomon 2 ; 1 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; 2 Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 3 INSERM, Centre
d’Investigations Cliniques -9501and Nancy-Universite, Nancy,
France; 4 University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann
Arbor, MI
Clinical Trials
184 Results of the RISK Trial: Renal Function and Female
Gender Are Strongly Associated with Early Response to
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Alaa A. Shalaby 1 , John Gorcsan 1 , Gregg Fonarow 2 , Jagmeet
Singh 3 , Malcolm Bersohn 2 , Jasmina Halilovic 4 , Manish
Gupta 4 , Ali Sonel 1 , Samir Saba 1 , William Abraham 6 , Alan
Kadish 7 ; 1 University of Pittsburgh, PA; 2 UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA; 3 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 4 St. Jude
Medical, Sunnyvale/Sylmar, CA; 5 The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH; 6 Touro College, New York, NY
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