16th Annual Scientific Meeting - Heart Failure Society of America

Sept. 10
Monday
Posters
Posters
Outcomes
Posters
Outcomes
Sept. 10
Monday
Posters
Monday
244 Heart Rate Variability Trend Predict 12- Month Cardiac
Event-Free Survival and Health Related Quality of Life
in Patients with Heart Failure
Tsuey-Yuan Huang 1 , Hui-Chu Yu 2 , Mei-Ling Yeh 3 , Ming-Fen
Tsai 1 , Shiow-Li Hwang 3 ; 1 Nursing, Chang Gung University of
Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan; 2 Nursing, National
Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 3 Nursing, National
Taipei University of Nursing & Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
245 Comorbid Illness Profiles Predict Greater Costs: An
Analysis of 417,477 Heart Failure Admissions
Christopher S. Lee 1 , Julie T. Bidwell 1 , Quin E. Denfeld 1 , Ruth
Masterson Creber 2 , Jill M. Gelow 1 , James O. Mudd 1 , Harleah
G. Buck 3 ; 1 Oregon Health & Science University, Portland,
OR; 2 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3 The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
246 Age, Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients
with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Insights from
the PROTECT Trial
M. Metra 1 , K. Chiswell 2 , M. Fiuzat 2 , V. Lazzarini 2 , J. Horton 2 ,
B. Davison 3 , J. Cleland 4 , P. Ponikowski 5 , J. Teerlink 6 , A.
Voors 7 , M. Givertz 8 , G. Mansoor 9 , B. Massie 6 , G. Cotter 3 ,
C. O’Connor 2 ; 1 University of Brescia, Italy; 2 Duke Clinical
Research Institute, Durham, NC; 3 Momentum Research,
Durham, NC; 4 University of Hull, United Kingdom; 5 Clinical
Military Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland; 6 University of California,
San Francisco, CA; 7 University Medical Center Groningen,
Netherlands; 8 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA;
9
Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ
247 Allograft Left Ventricular Hypertrophy after Cardiac
Transplantation
Kimberly Parks 1 , Cristina Castrillo 2 , Angela Canteli-Alvarez 2 ,
Malissa Wood 1 , Asma Mahmud 1 , Rajeev Malhotra 1 , Marc J.
Semigran 1 ; 1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;
2
Instituto de Formación e Investigación, University Hospital
Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
248 Differential Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure Treated
with the Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Candesartan,
Valsartan, and Losartan
Leticia Peh 1 , Kai Xin Ong 1 , Poh Shuan Daniel Yeo 2 ; 1 Pharmacy,
Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; 2 Cardiology, Tan
Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
249 The Impact of Heart Failure among In-Hospital
Cardiopulmonary Arrest; from the Japanese Registry of
CPR for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (J-RCPR)
Taro Sasaoka 1 , Mitsuaki Isobe 1 , Naohiro Yonemoto 2 , Hiroyuki
Yokoyama 3 , Hiroshi Nonogi 4 ; 1 Department of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan;
2
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Center
of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; 3 Department of
Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular
Center, Osaka, Japan; 4 Department of Cardiology, Shizuoka
General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
250 The Impact of Cerebrovascular Accidents on Outcomes
among African Americans Hospitalized with Heart
Failure
Maithili Shenoy 1 , Sandip Zalawadiya 2 , Hammam Zmily 2 ,
Suleiman Daifallah 1 , Omaima Ali 2 , Jareer Farah 1 , Jalal K.
Ghali 2 ; 1 Internal Medicine, Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State
University, Detroit, MI; 2 Cardiology, Detroit Medical Center/
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
251 Does Preparedness Planning Improve Attitudes and
Completion of Advance Directives in Patients with
Advanced Heart Failure?
Lorraine Evangelista 1 , Jennifer Ballard-Hernandez 2 , Shaista
Malik 3 , Marjan Motie 1 , JoAnn Prause 1 , Solomon Liao 3 , William
Mitchell 4 , Eric Adler 4 , Dawn Lomardo 3 ; 1 UC Irvine, Irvine, CA;
2
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, CA;
3
UC Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, CA; 4 UC San Diego Medical
Center, San Diego, CA
252 Prognostic Impact of an Ischemic Etiology of Chronic
Heart Failure across the Spectrum of Ejection Fractions
in the CHARM Program
Deepak K. Gupta 1 , Davide Castagno 2 , Christopher B. Granger 3 ,
Salim Yusuf 4 , Karl Swedberg 5 , John J.V. McMurray 6 , Marc A.
Pfeffer 1 , Scott D. Solomon 1 ; 1 Cardiovascular Div., Brigham &
Women’s Hosp, Boston, MA; 2 Div. of Cardiology, Univ. of
Turin, Italy; 3 Div. of Cardiology, Duke Univ. Med. Ctr., Durham,
NC; 4 Cardiovascular Med., McMaster University, Hamilton,
ON, Canada; 5 Dept. of Cardiovascular Med, University
of Gothenburg, Goteburg, Sweden; 6 Dept. of Cardiology,
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
253 Initial Therapy Does Not Substantially Improve Dyspnea
in Many ER Acute Heart Failure Patients
Kori Sauser 1 , Sean Collins 2 , Judd Hollander 6 , Alan Storrow 2 ,
Richard Nowak 7 , Adin-Cristian Andrei 1 , Chad Miller 8 , Frank
Peacock 9 , Miguel Tavares 5 , Alexander Mebazaa 4 , Mihai
Gheorghiade 1 , Peter S. Pang 1 ; 1 Northwestern University, Chicago,
IL; 2 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; 3 Hopital Lariboisiere,
Paris, France; 4 Hospital Geral de Santo Antonio, Porto, Portugal;
5
U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 6 Henry Ford, Detroit, MI;
7
Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; 8 Baylor U., Houston, TX
254 Impact of Renal Function on Prognostic Utility of the
Seattle Heart Failure Model
Kairav Vakil 1 , Todd Dardas 1 , Sunil Dhar 1 , Alec Moorman 1 ,
Inder Anand 2 , Aldo Maggioni 3 , David Linker 1 , Dariush
Mozaffarian 4 , Wayne Levy 1 ; 1 Division of Cardiology, University
of Washington, Seattle, WA; 2 Division of Cardiology, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 3 Division of Cardiology,
Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists Research Center,
Florence, Italy; 4 Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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