PROGRAM

POSTER RECEPTION II - SUNDAY
POSTERS
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Correlates of Spirometery to Invasively Measured Pulmonary Arterial Hemodynamics in Advanced Chronic Heart
Failure
Mohammad Alasaad 1 , Justin Grodin 1 , Vijay Ngarajan 2 , W.H. Wilson Tang 1 . 1 Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH;
2
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
310
The Importance of Defining Red Blood Cell Mass in the Management of Volume Overload Chronic Systolic Heart
Failure
Wayne L. Miller. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
313
Identifying a Strong Association Between Physical and Affective Symptom Clusters in Heart Failure
Quin E. Denfeld 1 , James O. Mudd 2 , Shirin O. Hiatt 1 , Jill M. Gelow 2 , Christopher V. Chien 2 , Christopher S. Lee 1 , 2 . 1 Oregon
Health & Science University, Portland, OR; 2 Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
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Pre-discharge Bedside Exercise Gas Exchange Measurements Predict 30 Day Heart Failure Patient Readmissions
Gregory D. Lewis 1 , Ashley Dress 1 , Gregory A. Ewald 2 , Jean Flanagan 2 , Peter Eckman 3 , Aaron Eisman 1 , Jennifer Nelson 3 ,
Dean MacCarter 4 , Abraham Kocheril 5 . 1 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2 Washington University, St. Louis,
MO; 3 Universtiy of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 4 Shape Medical Systems, St. Paul, MN; 5 University of Illinois, Champaign,
IL
315
Case Series Defining Role of External Chest Compressions (ECC) in Patients with Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
Bhaskar Arora, Jonathan Hammond, Nicole Chomick, Tari Devoe, Nicole Huhn, Jason Gluck. Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
317
Prognostic Value of a 6-Minute Walk Test in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Prospective
Study.
Bhavin C. Patel 1 , Siddharth A. Wayangankar 1 , Udho Thadani 1 , Pedro Lozano 1 , Faisal Latif 1 , Daniel Zhao 2 , Cheuk Leung 2 ,
Tarun W. Dasari 1 . 1 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; 2 University of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Network: Medication and Device Therapy Use in the First Year
Kismet Rasmusson 1 , Dennis McNamara 2 , Deborah Budge 1 , Abdallah Kfoury 1 , Uri Elkayam 3 , Michael Givertz 4 , Richard
Sheppard 5 , Greg Ewald 6 , Eileen Hsich 7 , Kalgi Modi 8 , Rami Alharethi 1 . 1 Intermountain Heart Institute, Salt Lake City, UT;
2
Univesity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 3 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 4 Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Boston, MA; 5 Jewish General, Montreal, QC, Canada; 6 Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 7 Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland, OH; 8 Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA
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The Impact of Sleep Apnea Syndrome Post Cardiac Transplantation
Sandra Carey. Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX
321
Pharmacotherapy for VAD Thrombus: Response Rates and Financial Impact of Anticoagulant Strategies
Lynne Sylvia 1 , Frank Massaro 1 , David DeNofrio 2 , Michael Kiernan 2 . 1 Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2 Tufts Medical
Center, Boston, MA
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