16th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 10
Monday
Posters
Monday
Posters
Epidemiology/Prevention Cardiovascular
Pharmacology
209 Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction in
African-Americans: The ARIC Study
Deepak K. Gupta 1 , Amil M. Shah 1 , Davide Castagno 2 ,
Madoka Takeuchi 1 , Laura R. Loehr 3 , Ervin Fox 4 , Kenneth R.
Butler 5 , Thomas H. Mosley 5 , Dalane W. Kitzman 6 , Scott D.
Solomon 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular Div., Brigham & Women’s Hosp,
Boston, MA; 2 Div. of Cardiology, Univ. of Turin, Italy; 3 Univ.
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 4 Div. of Cardiovascular
Dis., Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Jackson, MS; 5 Dept. of
Medicine-Geriatrics, Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr., Jackson,
MS; 6 Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-
Salem, NC
210 Cognitive Function in Older Heart Failure Patients Is
Similar to Older Patients Following Stroke
Karen Harkness 1 , 2 , Gail MacKenzie 1 , 2 , Emma MacLean 2 , George
Heckman 1 , 3 , Demetrios J. Sahlas 1 , 2 , Wieslaw Oczkowski 1 , 2 ,
Robert McKelvie 1 , 2 ; 1 McMaster University, Hamilton, ON,
Canada; 2 Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada;
3
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
211 Relationship between Diabetic Control and Diastolic
Dysfunction in Elderly Patients with Type 2 Diabetes; Is
Better Control Associated with Lower Risk of Diastolic
Dysfunction?
Cristina Bocirnea 1 , Mark Dunlap 1 ; 1 MetroHealth Medical Center,
Cleveland, OH
212 The ANP Genetic Variant RS5068 Is Associated
with a Favorable Cardiometabolic Phenotype in a
Mediterranean Population
Valentina Cannone 1 , Angelo Baldassare Cefalu’ 2 , Davide Noto 2 ,
Christopher G. Scott 1 , Kent R. Bailey 1 , Giovanni Cavera 3 ,
Michele Pagano 4 , Michelangelo Sapienza 3 , Maurizio Averna 2 ,
John C. Burnett, Jr 1 ; 1 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2 University of
Palermo, Palermo, Italy; 3 Az. Osp. Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia-
Cervello, Palermo, Italy; 4 Ingrassia Hospital, Palermo, Italy
213 Right Ventricular Dysfunction in HIV
Christopher D. Lacomis 1 , Alison M. Morris 2 , M. Patricia
George 2 , Marc A. Simon 3 , 4 ; 1 Dietrich School of Arts and
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA; 2 Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,
PA; 3 Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, PA;
4
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA
214 Role of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Incidence of
Atrial Fibrillation in Elderly Heart Failure Patients
Harsha V. Ganga 1 , Sanjeev Nair 2 , Binoy Varghese 3 ; 1 Division of
Cardiology, The Henry Low Heart Center, Hartford Hospital,
Hartford, CT; 2 Division of Cardiology, The Henry Low Heart
Center, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT; 3 Clinformix, LLC,
Germantown, MD
Posters
Outcomes
222 Do Risk Models in Advanced Heart Failure Need To Be
Sex-Specific?
Jennifer Chyu 1 , Chi-Hong Tseng 2 , Tamara B.
Horwich 1 ; 1 Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Los
Angeles, CA; 2 Biostatistics, David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
223 Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients
Presenting with Cardiogenic Shock – Insights from the
Romanian Acute Heart Failure Syndromes (RO-AHFS)
Registry
Ionela Codoiu 1 , Serban Bubenek 1 , Daniela Filipescu 1 , Andrew
Ambrosy 3 , Cezar Macarie 1 , Mihai Gheorghiade 4 ; 1 Cadiology,
Institute of Emergency for Cardiovascular Diseases C.C.Iliescu,
Bucharest, Romania; 2 Medicine Department, Stanford University
School of Medicine, Stanford, IL; 3 Center for Cardiovascular
Innovation, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of
Medicine, Chicago, IL
224 Recovery of Left Ventricular Systolic Function in New
Onset Heart Failure
Michael Chiu 1 , Haissam Haddad 2 , Ross A. Davies 2 ,
Denise Cassan 2 , Sylvie Begin 2 , Sherry Coulas 2 , Lisa M.
Mielniczuk 2 ; 1 University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; 2 University of
Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
225 Elevated Health ABC Heart Failure Risk Score Is
Associated with Subclinical Myocardial Stress in Patients
without Heart Failure
Alaa Gabi 1 , Yenal Harper 1 , Matthias Dupont 1 , Michael Finucan 1 ,
Stanley L. Hazen 1 , W.H. Wilson Tang 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular
Department - Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
227 Heart Transplant Survival Outcomes in Adriamycin
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Andrew J. Lenneman 1 , Haydar Frangoul 2 , Douglas B. Sawyer 1 ,
Carrie A. Geisberg 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt
Medical University, Nashville, TN; 2 Pediatric Hematology,
Vanderbilt Medical University, Nashville, TN
Sept. 10
Monday
Posters
228 In Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (NICMP), the
Presence of LV Scar Detected by Delayed Enhancement-
CMR Is a Stronger Predictor of Cardiovascular Events
Than Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) Carlos
M. Orrego 1 , Andrea M. Cordero-Reyes 1 , Luis J. Garcia-Morales 1 ,
Venkateshwar R. Polsani 1 , Eric Yang 1 , Arvind Bhimaraj 1 , Jerry
D. Estep 1 , Guillermo Torre-Amione 1 , 2 , Dipan Shah 1 ; 1 Methodist
DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, The Methodist Hospital,
Houston, TX; 2 Catedra de Cardiologia y Medicina Vascular,
Tecnologico de Monterrey, NL, Mexico
229 Apolipoprotein A-1 Levels and Heart Failure Outcomes
Vikas Bhalla 1 , Vasiliki Georgiopoulou 1 , Divya Gupta 1 , Catherine
N. Marti 1 , Robert T. Cole 1 , Andreas Kalogeropoulos 1 , W.H.
Wilson Tang 2 , Javed Butler 1 ; 1 Department of Medicine, Division
of Cardiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2 Department
of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, OH
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