Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

Early inflation Balloon inflates before aortic valve closes – the left ventricle is therefore forced to empty against an inflated balloon. There is an increase in afterload, potentially raising ...

Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation pumps (IABPs) are efficacious in treating cardiogenic shock and are often inserted prophylactically in hemodynamically stable patients who are undergoing ...

A percutaneous left ventricular assist device fails to offer improvement in 30-day outcomes compared with intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) therapy in high-risk patients requiring hemodynamic support ...

The high-risk angioplasty was performed at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Navi Mumbai, on a patient diagnosed with severe multi-vessel coronary artery disease and a critically low ejection ...

One way of assessing or assigning risk is to use a 'myocardium at risk' score. These scores help to systematically calculate the severity of CAD based on angiographic findings and also give an ...