16th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 10
Monday
Posters
Posters
Outcomes
Posters
Outcomes
Sept. 10
Monday
Posters
Monday
231 Perceived Control Predicts Perceptions of Positive
Changes in Life as a Result of Caring for a Patient with
Heart Failure
Misook L. Chung 1 , Debra K. Moser 1 , Terry A.
Lennie 1 ; 1 University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington,
KY
232 Predicting All-Cause Death and Medical Hospitalization
in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients with Electronic
Medical Record Data
Hussam H. Ghalib 1 , Todd M. Koelling 1 , David P. Ratz 2 , Scott L.
Hummel 1 , 2 ; 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2 Ann Arbor
Veterans Affairs Health System, Ann Arbor, MI
233 Chromogranin A Predicts 6 Years Mortality in Patients
with Reduced Ejection Fractions
Damien Gruson 1 , Anne-Catherine Pouleur 1 , Thibault
Lepoutre 1 , Jean-Marie Ketelslegers 1 , Sylvie A. Ahn 1 , Michel
F. Rousseau 1 ; 1 Division of Cardiology, University of Louvain,
Brussels, Belgium
234 Prognostic Utility of the Seattle Heart Failure Model To
Predict Survival in Patients with Heart Failure
Philip Jong 1 , Sylvie A. Ahn 2 , Shrikant I. Bangdiwala 3 , Michel
F. Rousseau 2 ; 1 Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON, Canada; 2 Department of Biostatistics, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 3 Division of Cardiology,
University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
235 Heart Failure Related Hospitalizations in Children with
Single Ventricle Heart Disease in the United States:
Costly and Getting More Expensive
J. W. Rossano 1 , D. J. Goldberg 1 , A. R. Mott 1 , K. Y. Lin 1 , R. E.
Shaddy 1 , B. D. Kaufman 1 , J. Rychik 1 ; 1 Cardiology, The Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
236 BNP Did Not Predict Cardiac Events in Acute Dyspneic
Patients with Severe Chronic Kidney Disease
ByungSu Yoo 1 , MinSoo Ahn 1 , JangYoung Kim 1 , SeungHwan
Lee 1 , KyungHoon Choe 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Yonsei University, Wonju
College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea
237 Admission Heart Rate and In-Hospital Outcomes in
Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure in Sinus Rhythm
and Atrial Fibrillation
Anh L. Bui 1 , Maria V. Grau-Sepulveda 2 , Adrian F. Hernandez 2 ,
Eric D. Peterson 2 , Clyde W. Yancy 3 , Deepak L. Bhatt 4 , Gregg
C. Fonarow 5 ; 1 Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles,
CA; 2 Duke University, Durham, NC; 3 Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL; 4 VA Boston Healthcare System, Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;
5
University of California Los Angeles, CA
238 Improved Physical Function Confers Greater Quality of
Life Benefits for NYHA Class III Than for NYHA Class
II Patients
Rebecca Gary 1 , Melinda Higgins 1 , Elaine Cress 2 , Andrew Smith 3 ,
Sandra Dunbar 1 ; 1 Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA;
2
Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; 3 Medicine,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
239 Renal Function in Patients with Acute Decompensated
Heart Failure Treated with Ultrafiltration
Nicholas Haglund 1 , Michael Johnston 1 , Ioana Dumitru 1 , Joan
Mack 2 , Brian Lowes 1 , Eugenia Raichlin 1 ; 1 Cardiology, University
of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; 2 Department of
Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
240 Drug and Device Effects on Short Term Markers as
Predictors of Long Term Therapeutic Effect on Mortality
and Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Patients with
Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
Kevin Morine 1 , Benjamin Wessler 1 , Daniel Kramer 1 , Marvin
Konstam 1 , James Udelson 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center,
Boston, MA
241 Outcomes of ICU Patients with Cardiomyopathy and
Severe Sepsis
Monique Tanna 1 , Hyun Ah Yoon 1 , Caroline Kwon 1 , Yan Yan
Sally Xie 1 , Darlene LeFrancois 1 , Sharon Leung 1 ; 1 Internal
Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
242 Among Patients Admitted for Acute Systolic Congestive
Heart Failure, Presence of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Is Associated with Increased Incidence of
Readmissions for Heart Failure Exacerbation
Maryam Afshar 1 , Raza Alvi 1 , Manjeet Singh 1 , Manoj Bhandari 1 ,
Jonathan Bella 1 , Narendra Bhalodkar 1 ; 1 Cardiology, Bronx-
Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY
243 Left Ventricular Systolic Function and Outcome after
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Patients Hospitalized
for Acute Heart Failure Syndromes – Data from
Romanian Acute Heart Failure Syndromes Study
(RO-AHFS Study)
Ionela Codoiu 1 , Anca Florian 1 , Serban Bubenek 1 , Daniela
Filipescu 1 , Dragos Vinereanu 2 , Andrew Ambrosy 3 , Mihai
Gheorghiade 4 , Cezar Macarie 1 ; 1 Institute of Emergency for
Cardiovascular Diseases C.C.Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania;
2
Universitary Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania;
3
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, IL; 4 Center
for Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern University,
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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