Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs)

Edward H. Nabet, DO, Bora Toklu, MD, Kishore Nallu, MD, John T. Fox, MD, Ramesh M. Gowda, MD

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York

Cath Lab Digest talks with Joseph L. Thomas, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program, Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Compiled by Morton Kern with contributions from Steve Bailey, San Antonio, Texas; Peter Berger, New Hyde Park, New York; Jim Blankenship, Danville, Pennsylvania; Ted Feldman, Evanston, Illinois; David Kandzari, Atlanta, Georgia; Aaron Kaplan, Dartmouth, New Hampshire; Navin K. Kapur, Boston, Massachusetts; Ajay J. Kirtane, New York City, New York; Lloyd Klein, Chicago, Illinois; Jeffrey Moses, New York City, New York; Gurpreet Sandhu, Rochester, Minnesota; Gregg Stone, New York City, New York; George Vetrovec, Richmond, Virginia; Bonnie Weiner, Worchester, Massachusetts; Chris White, New Orleans, Louisiana [See contributor list at end].

*The Impella Left Ventricular Assist Device (Abiomed, Inc).

Kusum Lata, MD, Cindy Grines, MD, FSCAI, Amir Kaki, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Detroit Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute – Heart Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Deepakraj Gajanana, MD, Jon C. George, MD, Vincent M. Figueredo, MD, D. Lynn Morris, MD, Sean Janzer, MD, Christian Witzke, MD, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania