16th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 11
Tuesday
Posters
Posters
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
Posters
Clinical Care/Management Strategies
Sept. 11
Tuesday
Posters
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323 Heart Failure Hospitalizations Are Reduced in
Heart Failure Patients with Comorbid Pulmonary
Hypertension Using a Wireless Implanted Pulmonary
Artery Pressure Monitoring System
Raymond Benza 1 , Robert Bourge 2 , Philip Adamson 3 , William
Abraham 4 , Jay Yadav 5 ; 1 Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh,
PA; 2 University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL; 3 Oklahoma
Heart Institute, Oklahoma City, OK; 4 Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH; 5 CardioMEMS, Inc., Atlanta, GA
324 Submaximal Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing for
Unexplained Dyspnea
Digant V. Bhatt 1 , Jae Cho 1 , Abraham Kocheril 1 ; 1 Medicine,
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL
325 Clinical Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Admission in
Patients Hospitalized for Pulmonary Edema – Data from
the RO-AHFS Registry
Ovidiu Chioncel 1 , Serban Bubenek 1 , Andrew Ambrosy 3 , Cezar
Macarie 1 , Mihai Gheorghiade 4 ; 1 Institute of Emergency for
Cardiovascular Diseases C.C.Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania;
2
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, IL; 3 Center
for Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern University,
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
326 Prognostic Utility of Procalcitonin in Guiding Antibiotic
Use in Acute Heart Failure Patients Presenting to the
Emergency Department with Dyspnea
Rajiv Choudhary 1 , Paul Clopton 1 , Stefan D. Anker 3 , Sean-
Xavier Neath 2 , Oliver Hartmann 4 , Andreas Bergmann 5 , Alan S.
Maisel 1 , 2 ; 1 Cardiology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San
Diego, CA; 2 Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA;
3
Center fot Clinical and Basic Research IRCCS San Raffaele,
Roma, Italy; 4 BRAHMS GmbH, Biotechnology Centre,
Hennigsdorf/Berlin, Germany; 5 Waltrout-Bergmann Foundation,
Hohen Neuendorf, Germany
327 Cardio-Oncology: Cardiac Risk Profile in Breast Cancer
Patients with Stage A Heart Failure
Monica DaSilva 1 , Wissam Abdallah 1 , VaNdana Abramson 1 ,
Ingrid Mayer 1 , Julie Means-Powell 1 , Darla Freehardt 1 , Brenda
White 1 , Daniel Lenihan 1 , David Slosky 1 , Douglas Sawyer 1 ,
Carrie Geisberg 1 ; 1 Cardiology and Oncology, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN
328 Ultrafiltration in Patients with Acute Decompensated
Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension
Gregory F. Egnaczyk 1 , Cheryl Bartone 1 , Santosh Menon 1 ,
Thomas O’Brien 1 , Peter Engel 1 , Eugene S. Chung 1 ; 1 The Christ
Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
329 Comparative Cost Analysis of LVAD vs. Axillary
Intraaortic Balloon Pump (IABP) as a Bridge to
Transplantation – A Single Center Experience
Jerry D. Estep 1 , Andrea M. Cordero-Reyes 1 , Arvind
Bhimaraj 1 , Laurie P. Loza 1 , Matthias Loebe 1 , Guillermo Torre-
Amione 1 , 2 ; 1 Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, The
Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 2 Catedra de Cardiologia y
Medicina Vascular, Tecnologico de Monterrey, NL, Mexico
330 A Hospital-Wide Program To Reduce Heart Failure
Readmissions
Aline Iskander 1 , Priti Mehla 1 , Jason Ryan 1 ; 1 Division of
Cardiology, University of Connecticut Health Center,
Farmington, CT
331 Percutaneous Hemodynamic Support (Impella)
in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure and/or
Cardiogenic Shock Not Eligible to PROTECT II Trial
Wei LIu 1 , N.A. Barbagelata 1 , Ken Fujise 1 ; 1 Cardiology, University
of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
332 Extremely Low Dose Amiodarone Is a Safe and Effective
Strategy in AF Management
Frank A. McGrew 1 , Jessica Foon 1 , Sandra B.
Charlton 2 ; 1 Cardiovascular Research Department, Stern
Cardiovascular Clinic, Germantown, TN; 2 Cardiac Rhythm
Disease Management, Medtronic, Inc., Mounds View, MN
333 Is the Right Ventricular Performance Altered in Patients
with Malignant Tumors Treated with Epirubicin? A
Doppler Echocardiographic Study
Dan Radulescu 1 , Paula Mitrea 2 ; 1 Cardiology, Medicala V,
University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca, Romania;
2
Computer Sciences, Technical University, Cluj, Romania
334 Obesity Paradox of NT proBNP in Heart Failure with
Preserved EF (HFpEF)
Rajesh Ramineni 1 , Khalife Wissam 1 , Poorna Nalabothu 1 ,
Mohamed Morsy 1 ; 1 Division of Cardiology/Department of
Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX
335 Masked Polycythemia in Patients with Heart Failure: An
Underappreciated Phenotype?
Sahadeo D. Ramnauth 1 , Sergio Teruya 1 , Steve Helmke 1 , Mathew
S. Maurer 1 ; 1 Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center,
New York, NY
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