HFSA Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting 2020

September 30, 2020 - October 6, 2020 | Virtual

Poster Hall Directory

Below is the directory of all the abstracts and ePosters available in the HFSA Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting 2020 Poster Hall.

Embargo Policy: Abstracts accepted are embargoed for release until the first day of the Heart Failure Society of America’s Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting.

 

Virtual ePoster Hall and Live ePoster Chat Hours

Virtual Meeting Platform | ePoster Hall

Access the Virtual ePoster Hall through the ePoster and Exhibit Hall Lobby in the virtual meeting platform. Posters will be on display during the hours below. ePoster presenters are required to be present for live ePoster Chats. See times below. 

Wednesday, September 30 4:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Thursday, October 1 4:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Friday, October 2 4:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Saturday, October 3 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Sunday, October 4 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Monday, October 5 4:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Tuesday, October 6 4:30 PM – 8:15 PM

 

Live ePoster Chats 

Virtual Meeting Platform | ePoster Hall

ePoster presenters and exhibit booth representatives will be virtually stationed at their virtual booth for live ePoster and Industry Chats – your opportunity to talk directly with these individuals. 

Saturday, October 3   1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Sunday, October 4 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
JNC New Investigator Award: Basic, Translational and Clinical

JNC New Investigator Award: Basic, Translational and Clinical

001

Validation Of Natriuretic Response Prediction Equation In Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Olyvia Gleason1, Grace Meegan1, James Fleming1, Matthew Griffin1, Juan Iv00ey-Miranda2, Zachary Cox3, Veena Rao1, Jeffrey Testani11Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; 2Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico; 3Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy, Nashville, TN

002

Circulating Protein Biomarkers Associated With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Jessica A. Regan, Lydia C. Kwee, Elizabeth Grass, William E. Kraus, Svati H. Shah. Duke University, Durham, NC

003

The Effect Of The Cardiac Myosin Activator, Omecamtiv Mecarbil, On Right Ventricular Structure And Function In Chronic Systolic Heart Failure (cosmic-hf)

Tor Biering-Sørensen1, Alexander Papolos2, John R. Teerlink3, G. Michael Felker4, John J.V. McMurray5, Jason C. Legg6, Fady I. Malik7, Narimon Honarpour8, Christopher E. Kurtz8, Scott D. Solomon91Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; 3San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; 4Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; 5British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 6Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA; 7Cytokinetics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA; 8Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA; 9Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

004

Race And Sex-specific Population Attributable Fractions For Incident Heart Failure: Lifetime Risk Pooling Project

Arjun Sinha, Hongyan Ning, Mercedes R. Carnethon, Norrina B. Allen, John T. Wilkins, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Sadiya S. Khan. Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

005

A Novel Metabolomics Risk Score Associated With Sex-differences In Heart Failure

Aditi Nayak1, Chang Liu1, Anurag Mehta1, Shabatun J. Islam1, Melroy D'Souza1, Yi-An Ko1, Karan Uppal1, Dean P. Jones1, Javed Butler2, Arshed A. Quyyumi1, Alanna A. Morris11Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS

 

Nurse Investigator Award: Research/Clinical

Nurse Investigator Award: Research/Clinical

006

Virtual Outpatient Heart Failure Care - Lessons From The Covid-19 Era

Sharon Ugolini1, Favel L. Mondesir2, Chase Maires3, Erin Davis3, Holly Andrews2, Chantel White2, Jess Anderson2, Jacob Fetzer2, Jill Waldron2, Kevin Shah2, Omar Wever-Pinzon2, Jose Nativi-Nicolau2, Line Kemeyou2, Edward M. Gilbert2, Stavros Drakos2, James C. Fang2, Josef Stehlik21University of Utah Heath, Salt Lake City, UT; 2University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT; 3University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT

007

Enhancing Shared Decision Making In A Chronic Population. Use Of An Advance Directive Decision Aid For Patients With Heart Failure And Their Caregivers.

Emily Benton1, Maureen Metzger2, Patricia Hollen2, Larry Allen1, Colleen McIlvennan11University of Colorado, Denver, CO; 2University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

008

Predictive Model For Risk Of 30-day Rehospitalization Using A Natural Language Processing/machine Learning Approach Among Medicare Patients With Heart Failure

Youjeong Kang, John Hurdle. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

009

Blacks With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Have Lower Quality Of Life And Exercise Capacity Than Whites

Milla E. Arabadjian1, Gary Yu1, Allison Vorderstrasse1, Mark Sherrid2, Victoria Vaughan Dickson11NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York, NY; 2NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY

010

Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions Through A Shared Medical Appointment

Lisa Filyo, Kimberly Hansen, Emiliya Khazan, Laurie Wolf, Mark Milunski, Stephanie Ingram. VA, Orlando, FL

011

Our Experience With Using Watchpat® (itamar Medical, Ltd.), Home Sleep Testing (hst) For The Diagnosis Of Sleep Apnea In Advanced Heart Failure Patients

Sandra A. Carey1, Aasim Afzal1, Aayla Jamil1, Whitney Whiteley1, David Ostransky21Baylor Scott and White HCS, Dallas, TX; 2North Texas Lung and Sleep Clinic, Southlake, TX

Moderated Posters

Moderated Posters

012

Renal Negative Pressure Treatment As A Novel Therapy For Cardio-renal Syndrome

Christopher Maulion, Jennifer Asher, Joshua Moskow, Juan Ivey-Miranda, James Fleming, Olyvia Gleason, Grace Meegan, Veena Rao, Jeffrey Testani. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

013

Six-month And One-year Outcomes For Repair In Patients With Functional Mitral Regurgitation From The CLASP Study

Marc Goldschmidt1, Sula Mazimba2, Paul Grayburn3, Antoine Hage4, Panagiota Kourkoveli5, Jennifer Cowger6, Lisa Simmons7, Gordon Moe8, Joseph Mishkin9, David Platts10, Robert Gordon11, Silvia Ajello12, Leo Marcoff1, Mustafa Toma131Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ; 2University of Virginia Health System Hospital, Charlottesville, VA; 3Baylor Scott and White The Heart Hospital Plano, Plano, TX; 4Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA; 5Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece; 6Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 7Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; 8St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 9Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (Carolinas HealthCare System), Charolette, NC; 10Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, QLD, Australia; 11NorthShore Univ Health System, Evanstan, IL; 12San Raffaele Institute, Milan, Italy; 13St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

014

Safety And Efficacy Of The Soluble Guanylate Cyclase Stimulator Praliciguat In Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (Capacity HFpEF): A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 2 Trial

James E. Udelson1, Gregory D. Lewis2, Sanjiv J. Shah3, Michael R. Zile4, Margaret M. Redfield5, John Burnett5, John D. Parker6, Jelena Seferovic7, Phebe J. Wilson7, Robert S. Mittleman8, Albert T. Profy7, Marvin A. Konstam11Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 4Medical University of South Carolina and the RHJ Department of VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC; 5Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 6University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 7Cyclerion Therapeutics, Boston, MA; 8Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

016

Perceived Stress Is Associated With Incident Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Lauren Balkan1, Joanna B. Ringel1, Emily B. Levitan2, Yulia A. Khodneva2, Laura Pinheiro1, Madeline R. Sterling1, Samuel Kim1, Elizabeth A. Jackson2, Raegan Durant W. Durant2, Monika M. Safford1, Parag Goyal11Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; 2University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

017

Distinct Myocardial Gene Expression Signatures In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Virginia S. Hahn1, Hildur Knutsdottir1, Aditi Madan1, Xin Luo2, Kenneth Bedi3, Kenneth B. Margulies3, Saptarsi M. Haldar2, Marina Stolina4, Jun Yin2, Aarif Y. Khahoo2, Joban Vaishnav1, Anthony Cammarato1, Joel S. Bader1, David A. Kass1, Kavita Sharma11Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; 2Amgen Research, South San Francisco, CA; 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 4Amgen Research, Thousand Oaks, CA

018

Sex-based Differences In Biomarkers, Quality Of Life, And Reverse Cardiac Remodeling In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Treated With Sacubitril/valsartan

Nasrien E. Ibrahim1, Ileana Pena2, Alexander Camacho1, Devavrat Bapat1, G. Michael Felker3, Alan S. Maisel4, Javed Butler5, Margaret F. Prescott6, Cheryl Abbass7, Scott D. Solomon8, James L. Januzzi, Jr11Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 3Duke University, Durham, NC; 4University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; 5University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS; 6Novartis, New Brunswick, NJ; 7Novartis, East Hanover, NJ; 8Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

019

The Effects Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy On Cardiovascular And Non-cardiovascular Hospitalization: A Long-term Follow-up MADIT-CRT Sub-study

Sabu Thomas, Scott McNitt, Slava Polonsky, Jeffrey Alexis, John Bisognano, Himabindu Vidula, Igor Gosev, Ilan Goldenberg, Valentina Kutyifa. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

020

Primary Caregiver Relationships For Advanced Heart Failure Therapy Differ Based On Sex And Race And Predict Eligibility

Rebecca S. Steinberg, Aditi Nayak, Tiffany Dong, Alanna A. Morris. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

021

Exercise Oscillatory Ventilation Is Independently Associated With Right Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction In Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Thida Tabucanon, Timothy Engelman, J. Emanuel Finet, W. H. Wilson Tang. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

022

Efficacy Of Tafamidis By Baseline 6-minute Walk Test Distance In The Tafamidis In Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy Clinical Trial (ATTR-ACT)

Mathew S. Maurer1, Eric Adler2, Balarama Gundapaneni3, Marla B. Sultan4, Claudio Rapezzi51Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; 2University of California, San Diego, CA; 3Pfizer, Groton, CT; 4Pfizer, New York, NY; 5University of Ferrara and Maria Cecilia Hospital, Cotignola, Italy

023

Trends In Heart Failure-related Cardiovascular Mortality In Rural Versus Urban Counties In The United States, 2011-2018

Jacob B. Pierce, Nilay S. Shah, Lucia C. Petito, Lindsay Pool, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Joe Feinglass, Sadiya S. Khan. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

024

Phenomapping A Novel Classification System For Patients With Destination LVADs: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Cluster Analysis

Nicholas S. Hendren1, Matt Segar1, Lin Zhong1, Mark H. Drazner1, James B. Young2, W. H. Wilson Tang2, Ambarish Pandey1, Justin L. Grodin11University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

025

Positive Tc-99m Pyrophosphate Scintigraphy Predicts Thromboembolic Risk In Patients With Congestive Heart Failure And Atrial Fibrillation.

Syed Bukhari, Amr Barakat, Sandeep Jain, Amy Brownell, Yvonne S. Eisele, William Follansbee, Samir Saba, Prem Soman. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

026

Cystatin C For Estimation Of Renal Function And Valganciclovir Dosing In Heart Transplant Patients

Alberto Pinsino1,2, Douglas Jennings1, Austin Sweat1, Giulio Mondellini1, Lorenzo Braghieri1, Paolo C. Colombo1, Melana Yuzefpolskaya11Columbia University, New York, NY; 2NYC Health + Hospitals/ Jacobi, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

027

Cardiac And Hemodynamic Effects Of Acute Phosphodiesterase-1 Inhibition In Human Heart Failure

Nisha A. Gilotra1, Adam Devore2, Allison Hays1, Virginia Hahn1, Tolu A. Agunbiade1, Richard Chen3, Robert Davis4, Andrew Satlin4, Thomas Povsic5, David Kass11Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; 2Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; 3Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc, Baltimore, MD; 4Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc, New York, NY; 5Duke University, Durham, NC

028

A Prospective Evaluation Of Clinical Characteristics Of Methamphetamine-associated Cardiomyopathy (MACM) In Comparison To A Matched-cohort With Non-methamphetamine Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Edward Chau1, Pavan KV Reddy2, Sagar V. Patel1, Katharine Yang1, Robert M. Tungate1, Tien MH Ng3, Uri Elkayam11Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 2Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, CA; 3School of Pharmacy of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

029

Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Recovery, Remission, And Relapse In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Single-Center Longitudinal Experience

Pavan Bhat, Lin Li, Xinge Ji, W. H. Wilson Tang. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

030

Racial And Ethnic Differences In Biomarkers, Health Status, And Cardiac Remodeling In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Treated With Sacubitril/valsartan

Nasrien E. Ibrahim1, Ileana Pena2, Alexander Camacho1, Devavrat Bapat1, G. Michael Felker3, Alan Maisel4, Javed Butler5, Margaret Prescott6, Cheryl Abbass6, Scott Solomon7, James Januzzi, Jr11Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 3Duke University, Durham, NC; 4University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; 5University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS; 6Novartis, East Hanover, NJ; 7Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

031

Heart Failure And All-cause Hospitalizations Can Be Reduced During Ambulatory Monitoring Even In Patients Who Cannot Be Matched To Trial-type Patients

J. Thomas Heywood1, Maria Rosa Costanzo2, Akshay S. Desai3, John Henderson4, Marie-Elena Brett4, Lynne W. Stevenson51Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA; 2Advocate Heart Institute, Naperville, IL; 3Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 4Abbott, Atlanta, GA; 5Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Abstracts (By Category)

Biomarkers/Neurohormones/Cytokines

032

Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Mediates Reverse Cardiac Remodeling During Treatment With Sacubitril/Valsartan In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Sean P. Murphy1, Margaret F. Prescott2, Alexander Camacho1, Seethalakshmi R. Iyer3, Alan S. Maisel4, G. Michael Felker5, Javed Butler6, Ileana L. Piña7, Nasrien E. Ibrahim1, Cheryl Abbas2, John Burnett3, Scott D. Solomon8, James L. Januzzi11Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ; 3Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 4University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA; 5Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 6University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 7Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI; 8Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

033

Comparison Of Nt-proBNP Concentrations When In Or Out Of Heartlogic Alerts

John P. Boehmer1, Giulio Molon2, Gezheng Wen3, Pramodsingh Thakur3, Roy S. Gardner41Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA; 2IRCCS Sacro Cuore - Don Calabria, Negrar, Italy; 3Boston Scientific Corporation, St Paul, MN; 4Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, United Kingdom

034

Elevated Serum Endothelial Glycocalyx Is Associated With Decreased Survival In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Thanat Chaikijurajai1, Yong-Hyun Kim2, Takeshi Kitai3, Rommel Morales1, Kathryn Morales4, W. H. Wilson Tang11Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan-si, Korea, Republic of; 3Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan; 4Quest Diagnostics/Cleveland HeartLab, Cleveland, OH

035

Using Novel Biomarkers To Predict Chemo-induced Cardiovascular Toxicity In Patients With Breast Cancer

Krithika Krishnarao1, Winston Tan1, Xochiquetzal Geiger1, Katelyn Bruno1, DeLisa Fairweather1, Erika Douglass2, Mohamad Yamani11Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; 2Mayo Clinic, Research Services, FL

036

Prognostic Implications Of Urinary And Plasma C-type Natriuretic Peptide In Human Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Xiao Ma1, Yang Chen1, Shawn H. Reginauld1, Christopher G. Scott1, Seethalakshmi R. Iyer1, Jacob J. Schaefer1, Tomoko Ichiki2, Horng H. Chen1, Andrew D. Rule1, John C. Burnett1, S. Jeson Sangaralingham11Mayo Clinc, Rochester, MN; 2International University of Health and Welfare, Narita, Japan

037

Lymphocytopenia During Hospitalization For Acute Heart Failure And Its Relationship With Portal Congestion And Right Ventricular Function

Nadia Bouabdallaoui, Martin G. Sirois, William Beaubien-Souligny, André Y. Denault, Jean L. Rouleau. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada

038

Inflammatory Markers And Risk Of Heart Failure With Reduced, Mid-range And Preserved Ejection Fraction

zainab H. Albar1, David A. Zidar2, Sadeer G. Al-Kindi21Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; 2Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH

039

Growth Differentiation Factor 15 As A Composite Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Indicator Including Heart Failure: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis

Suyi Xie1,2, Qi Li1,2, Erik Fung1,21Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China; 2Laboratory for Heart Failure + Circulation Research, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

040

Differential Expression, Interactive Relationship And Functional Pathway Of Micro Ribonucleic Acids And Proteins In Plasma Exosomes Of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.

Shihui Fu1,2, Yulong Li1, Xiaoqian Zhao3, Leiming Luo11Department of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China; 2Department of Cardiology, Hainan Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Sanya, China; 3Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA 305 Hospital, Beijing, China

041

Endothelin-1 May Be A Potential Biomarker For Monitoring Changes In Nitric Oxide Metabolism In Pulmonary Hypertension

Adil Yunis, Mehdi Nouraie, Noel Britton, Yingze Zhang, Nicole Helbling, Hannah Warr, Shruti Shiva, Alison Morris, Marc A. Simon. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

042

Natriuretic Peptides And MicroRNAs 155 And 425 In Human Heart Failure: Biomarker Roles And Pathophysiologic Regulation

Yang Chen, Xiao Ma, Seethalakshmi Iyer, Shawn Reginauld, John Burnett. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

043

The Effects Of Exercise On Telomere Length In Persons With Heart Failure

Catrina Smith, Brittany Butts. Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA

044

Association Of B-type Natriuretic Peptide With Pulmonary Artery Pressures In Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients

Catherine Song1, Jeffrey Tran1, Aaron Wolfson2, David Shavelle11USC, Los Angeles, CA; 2University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

045

Relationship Of Baseline NT-proBNP To Responsiveness To Vagus Nerve Stimulation In Patients With Heart Failure And Reduced Ejection Fraction

Inder Anand1, Jeffrey Ardell2, Douglas Gregory3, Imad Libbus4, Lorenzo DiCarlo4, Rajendra Premchand5, Kamal Sharma6, Rufino Monteiro71University of Minnesota (Emeritus), Minneapolis, TX; 2University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 3Clinical Cardiovascular Science Foundation, Boston, MA; 4LivaNova, Houston, TX; 5Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Secunderabad, India; 6Sanjivani Super Specialty Hospitals, Ahmedabad, India; 7Vintage Hospital, Goa, India

046

Anp Production Is Impaired In Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Shawn Henry Reginauld, S. Jeson Sangaralingham, Seethalakshmi R. Iyer, John C. Burnett Jr. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

047

C3a, C4a, And C5a Complement Anaphylatoxins Are Paradoxically Decreased In Acute And Chronic Heart Failure

Rommel Morales1, Lingjun Zhang1, Yuping Wu2, Jennifer Wilcox1, Timothy Engelman1, Ying Ni1, Feng Lin1, W. H. Wilson Tang11Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH

048

Circulating Osteocrin Levels Do Not Track With Myocardial Function In Chronic Systolic Heart Failure

Rommel Morales, Allen G. Borowski, W. H. Wilson Tang. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

049

Prognostic Value Of Soluble ST2 Measurements For Morbidity And Mortality In Ambulatory Patients With HFrEF

Alexander O. Gong1, Sagar V. Patel2, Nina Balac2, Andrew E. Lee1, Jennifer M. McLeod3, Luanda P. Grazette11Keck Hospital of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 2Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 3Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY

050

Changes In The Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction And Natriuretic Peptides In Heart Failure Patients With Moderately Reduced And Preserved Ejection Fraction Treated Following Transvenous Stimulation Of The Phrenic Nerve For Central Sleep Apnea

Shannon Meyers1, Saleh El Dassouki1, Scott W. McKane2, Timothy E. Meyer2, James C. Fang1, Krishna M. Sundar1, Kevin S. Shah11University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 2Respicardia Inc, St Paul, MN

051

Sera SST2 Levels Differ By Sex And Age For Myocardial Infarct And Cardiomyopathy

Danielle Beetler1, Katelyn A. Bruno1, Swikriti Shrestha2, Erika Douglass1, DeLisa Fairweather11Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

052

Torsemide Is Associated With Higher Levels Of Urinary Biomarkers Of Tubular Injury Compared To Furosemide

Naila Ijaz1, Lauren Cooper2, Scott Bruce3, Mitchell Psotka2, Robert Mentz4, Rachel Bell2, Stephen Seliger5, Christopher O'Connor2, Christopher deFilippi21Inova, Falls Church, VA; 2Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 3George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; 4Duke, Durham, NC; 5University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

 

Cardiovascular Pharmacology

053

Safety And Efficacy Of An Automated Nurse-Driven Diuretic Titration Protocol: The Yale Diuretic Pathway

Grace Meegan1, Prasama Sangkachand2, Margaret O’Brien2, Ralph Riello2, Richard Soucier1, Daniel Jacoby1, Olyvia Gleason1, James Fleming1, Matthew Griffin1, Juan Ivey-Miranda3, Zachary Cox4, Veena Rao1, Jeffrey Testani11Yale University, New Haven, CT; 2Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; 3Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico; 4Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN

054

Safety And Effectiveness Of PCSK9 Inhibitors In Orthotopic Heart Transplant Patients

Yasser Sammour, Bethany A. Austin, Michael Borkon, Mark P. Everley, Timothy J. Fendler, Taiyeb M. Khumri, Stephanie L. Lawhorn, Anthony Magalski, Michael E. Nassif, Deepthi Vodnala, Andrew C. Kao, Brett W. Sperry. Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO

056

Increased Risk Of Supratherapeutic Vancomycin Exposure Among Lvad Recipients

Sylvie Hall1, Vasilios Athans2, Matt Wanek3, Jerry D. Estep4, J. Bradley Williams41Bellevue Hospital, New York Health and Hospitals, New York, NY; 2Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center, Scottsdale, AZ; 4Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

057

Predictors Of Successful Response To Afterload Reduction In Low-output Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Keith Behrend1, Matthew Lillyblad1, Christian Schmidt2, Mosi Bennett21Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN; 2Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

058

Heart Rate Reduction Following Beta-blocker Up-titration Is Associated With Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Thanat Chaikijurajai1, Kenneth V. Varian2, Xinge Ji1, W. H. Wilson Tang11Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Summa Health, Akron, OH

059

The Benefit Of Mean Arterial Pressure Control Using Heart Failure Medical Therapies In Patients Supported By HeartMate 3 LVADs

Kathleen M. D. Faulkenberg1, Sylvie Hall2, Varinder K. Randhawa1, Lucianne M. West1, J. Bradley Williams1, Edward Soltesz1, W.H. Wilson Tang1, Jerry D. Estep11Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY

060

The Acute Hemodynamic Unloading Effects Of Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibition In Patients Receiving Intravenous Vasoactive Therapy

Trejeeve Martyn, Kathleen D. Faulkenberg, Chonyang L. Albert, Varinder Randhawa, Eoin Donnellan, Zachary J. Il'Giovine, Venu Menon, Steven E. Nissen, Jerry D. Estep, WH Wilson Tang, Randall C. Starling. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

061

Effects Of Bromocriptine In Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis

Veraprapas Kittipibul1, Sunita Mahabir1, Garly R. Saint Croix2, Michael Ibrahim3, Gabriel A. Hernandez4, Sandra Chaparro51University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL; 2Division of Cardiology, Columbia University at Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida, Miami beach, FL; 3Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston Medical Center/Boston University, Boston, MA; 4Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 5Advanced Heart Failure Program, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL

062

Safety And Efficacy Of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase Stimulators In Patients With Heart Failure: A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis

Waqas Ullah1, Maryam Mukhtar2, Aws Al-Mukhtar3, Sohaib Roomi1, Rehan Saeed1, Margot Boigon1, Donald Haas1, Eduardo Rame41Abington Jefferson Health, Abington, PA; 2Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan; 3Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 4Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

063

Utilization Of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists In An Advanced Heart Failure And Transplant Program In The Middle East

Leen Oyoun Alsoud, Bassam Atallah, Ziad G. Sadik, Hussam Ghalib, Fahad AlSindi, Feras Bader. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

064

Pirfenidone Is Associated With Decreased Indexed End Diastolic And Systolic Volumes In Patients With HFpEF And A Known History Of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Shehab AlAnsari1, Brian D. Southern1, Vikram Sharma2, Gauranga Mahalwar3, WH Wilson Tang11Cleveland Clinic, CLEVELAND, OH; 2University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, -, IA; 3Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

065

Effects Of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists And SGLT-2 Inhibitors In Heart Transplant Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Case Series

Yasser Sammour, Michael Nassif, Merrill Thomas, Melissa Magwire, Taiyeb Khumri, Brett Sperry, Bethany Austin, Timothy Fendler, Andrew Kao, Deepthi Vodnala, Stephanie Lawhorn, Mark Everley, Anthony Magalski, Mikhail Kosiborod. Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO

066

Use Of Droxidopa To Treat Orthostatic Hypotension In A Patient With Hfref

Frank McGrew1, Brian Dragutsky2, Sandra Charlton31The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation, Inc., germantown, TN; 2The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation, Inc., Germantown, TN; 3Medtronic, Mounds View, MN

 

Cardiovascular Physiology

067

Why Is Diuresis-related Weight Loss Not A Consistent Predictor Of Clinical Outcomes In Heart Failure? -need To Account For Variability In Volume Status

Wayne L. Miller, Ronstan Lobo. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

069

Longitudinal Assessment Of Hemodynamic And Autonomic Responses To Mechanical Circulatory Support Among Advanced Heart Failure Patients

Pedro Giro, Ashley Pratt-Cordova, Gregory V. Coe, Morgan Ostertag, Margaret Schulte, Katie O’Gean, Mark Beindorff, Jessica Byrd, Jay D. Pal, William K. Cornwell III. University of Colorado, Denver, CO

071

Estimated Vs. Measured Resting Metabolic Rate To Guide Nutrition Recommendations For Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Thomas Cascino, Theresa Anderson, Daniel Perry, Gillian Grafton, Todd Koelling, Scott L. Hummel. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

073

Endothelial Mesenchymal Transition And Cardiorenal Syndrome In A Rodent Model Of Heart Failure With A Preserved Ejection Fraction

Albin Oh, Maria Valero-Munoz, Flora Sam. Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

074

Effect Of Hypothyroidism On Force And Kinetics In End-stage Failing Human Myocardium

Nancy Saad, Mohammed Mashali, Kyra Peczkowski, Salome Kiduko, Amanda Huang, Farbod Fazlollahi, Austin Hare, Gina TorresMatias, Bryan whitson, Nahush Mokadam, Courtney Campbell, Paul Janssen. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

075

Comparison Of Instantaneous Effect Of Speed Change On Invasive Hemodynamics And Echocardiographic Parameters Between Heartware And Heartmate 3 LVADs

Miguel A. Chavez, Tanushree Agrawal, Miguel Castro, Rahul Singh, Mahwash Kassi, Susan Xu, Ju Kim, Nadia Fida, Barry Trachtenberg, Ashrith Guha, Arvind Bhimaraj, Erik Suarez, Thomas MacGillivray, Imad Hussain, Rayan Yousefzai. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

076

Wellbeing-Of-The Right Heart Forecasts-The Fate-Of-The Left Heart During Heart Attack

Ismayil Ahmet, Edward G. Lakatta. NIA/NIH, Baltimore, MD

077

Lack Of Association Between Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony And The Development Of Cardiomyopathy In Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block And Initially Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

Mahmoud M. Salem, Ahmed Hussin, Philip Formica, Sarju Ganatra, Sachin P. Shah, David M. Venesy, Sunita Sharma, Richard D. Patten. Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

078

Non-compliant Left Atrium Due To Scarring From Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Leads To Discordance Of PAWP-LVEDP And Severe Post-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension

Dejan Vrtikapa, Jennifer Wright, James Runo, Ravi Dhingra, Peter Rahko, Farhan Raza. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

079

Gas Exchange Score With VE/VCO2And ETCOReliably Predicts Pulmonary Vascular Disease In Suspected Pulmonary Hypertension

Naga Dharmavaram, Aurangzeb Baber, Farhan Raza. University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI

080

Treatment Dilemma In Systemic Lupus Erythematous Related Cardiomiopathy

Muhammad Hassan Khan, Pradeep Kumar Devarakonda, Praneeth Kumar Reddy Bandaru, Kyaw Htoo, Samir Garyali. The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY

081

Venous Congestion, Not Cardiac Index Is Associated With Diuretic Resistance

Maxwell Eder1, Matthew Griffin1, James Fleming1, Olyvia Gleason1, Grace Meegan1, Juan Ivey-Miranda2, Zachary Cox3, Veena Rao1, Jeffrey Testani11Yale University, New Haven, CT; 2Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico; 3Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy, Nashville, TN

 

Cardiovascular Physiology

067

Why Is Diuresis-related Weight Loss Not A Consistent Predictor Of Clinical Outcomes In Heart Failure? -need To Account For Variability In Volume Status

Wayne L. Miller, Ronstan Lobo. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

069

Longitudinal Assessment Of Hemodynamic And Autonomic Responses To Mechanical Circulatory Support Among Advanced Heart Failure Patients

Pedro Giro, Ashley Pratt-Cordova, Gregory V. Coe, Morgan Ostertag, Margaret Schulte, Katie O’Gean, Mark Beindorff, Jessica Byrd, Jay D. Pal, William K. Cornwell III. University of Colorado, Denver, CO

071

Estimated Vs. Measured Resting Metabolic Rate To Guide Nutrition Recommendations For Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Thomas Cascino, Theresa Anderson, Daniel Perry, Gillian Grafton, Todd Koelling, Scott L. Hummel. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

073

Endothelial Mesenchymal Transition And Cardiorenal Syndrome In A Rodent Model Of Heart Failure With A Preserved Ejection Fraction

Albin Oh, Maria Valero-Munoz, Flora Sam. Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

074

Effect Of Hypothyroidism On Force And Kinetics In End-stage Failing Human Myocardium

Nancy Saad, Mohammed Mashali, Kyra Peczkowski, Salome Kiduko, Amanda Huang, Farbod Fazlollahi, Austin Hare, Gina TorresMatias, Bryan whitson, Nahush Mokadam, Courtney Campbell, Paul Janssen. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

075

Comparison Of Instantaneous Effect Of Speed Change On Invasive Hemodynamics And Echocardiographic Parameters Between Heartware And Heartmate 3 LVADs

Miguel A. Chavez, Tanushree Agrawal, Miguel Castro, Rahul Singh, Mahwash Kassi, Susan Xu, Ju Kim, Nadia Fida, Barry Trachtenberg, Ashrith Guha, Arvind Bhimaraj, Erik Suarez, Thomas MacGillivray, Imad Hussain, Rayan Yousefzai. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

076

Wellbeing-Of-The Right Heart Forecasts-The Fate-Of-The Left Heart During Heart Attack

Ismayil Ahmet, Edward G. Lakatta. NIA/NIH, Baltimore, MD

077

Lack Of Association Between Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony And The Development Of Cardiomyopathy In Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block And Initially Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

Mahmoud M. Salem, Ahmed Hussin, Philip Formica, Sarju Ganatra, Sachin P. Shah, David M. Venesy, Sunita Sharma, Richard D. Patten. Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

078

Non-compliant Left Atrium Due To Scarring From Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Leads To Discordance Of PAWP-LVEDP And Severe Post-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension

Dejan Vrtikapa, Jennifer Wright, James Runo, Ravi Dhingra, Peter Rahko, Farhan Raza. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

079

Gas Exchange Score With VE/VCO2And ETCOReliably Predicts Pulmonary Vascular Disease In Suspected Pulmonary Hypertension

Naga Dharmavaram, Aurangzeb Baber, Farhan Raza. University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI

080

Treatment Dilemma In Systemic Lupus Erythematous Related Cardiomiopathy

Muhammad Hassan Khan, Pradeep Kumar Devarakonda, Praneeth Kumar Reddy Bandaru, Kyaw Htoo, Samir Garyali. The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY

081

Venous Congestion, Not Cardiac Index Is Associated With Diuretic Resistance

Maxwell Eder1, Matthew Griffin1, James Fleming1, Olyvia Gleason1, Grace Meegan1, Juan Ivey-Miranda2, Zachary Cox3, Veena Rao1, Jeffrey Testani11Yale University, New Haven, CT; 2Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico; 3Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy, Nashville, TN

 

Cardiovascular Structure/Imaging

083

Mild Aortic Valve Stenosis Predicts Worse Survival After Hospital Admission For Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Frederik H. Verbrugge, Yogesh N. V. Reddy, Daniel Burkhoff, Barry A. Borlaug. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

084

Echocardiographic Changes In Heart Failure Patients Treated With Transvenous Stimulation Of The Phrenic Nerve For Central Sleep Apnea

Shannon Meyers1, Saleh El Dassouki1, Scott W. McKane2, Timothy E. Meyer2, James C. Fang1, Krishna M. Sundar1, Kevin S. Shah11University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 2Respicardia Inc, St Paul, MN

085

Effect Of Late Gadolimum Enhacement And Adverse Right Ventricular Remodeling On Mortality In Ptients With Group I Pulmonary Hepertension Vs. Group Ii Pulmonary Hypertension

Arif Albulushi, Brian Lowes, Ronald Zolty. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

086

Amyloidosis Prediction Score: A Clinical Model For Diagnosing Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis.

Syed Bukhari1, Saurabh Malhotra2, Daniel Shpilsky1, Ricardo Nieves1, Prem Soman11University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; 2John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL

088

The Clinical Spectrum Of T60a Variant Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis In Ireland

Katie Hewitt, Molly McGuckin, Gerard Giblin, Laura Murphy, Emer Joyce. Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 7, Ireland

089

Prognostic Value Of Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain In Cardiac Amyloidosis - A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis

Ahmad Yehia Alazawie1, Ali S. Ali Al-Shammari1, Reham M. Ibrahim1, Mohammed T. Mutar1, Hilal Al-Saffar1, Loai Abudaqa2, Hasan Al Ajmi2, Fawaz Alenezi3, Michel Khouri31College of Medicine, University of Baghdad., Baghdad, Iraq; 2Duke clinical research, Durham, NC; 3Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

090

Myocardial Contraction Fraction In Outcomes In Transthyretin Amyloidosis

Sunil E. Saith, Danilo Gamino, Sergio Teryua, Jeffeny De Los Santos, Samantha Guadalupe, Margaret Cuomo, Carlos Rodriguez, Stephen Helmke, Hannah Rosenblum, Jan M. Griffin, Mathew S. Maurer. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY

092

Prevalence And Significance Of Incidental Findings On Pyp Imaging In The Scan-mp Study: The First 123 Cases

Jan M. Griffin1, Hannah Rosenblum1, Sergio Teruya1, Margaret Cuomo1, Tori Blot2, Matthew Cozzolino2, Jeffeny De Los Santos1, Andrew Einstein1, Denise Fine2, Edeliz Flores2, Stephen Helmke1, Varsha Muralidhar2, Shivda Pandey2, Natalia Sabogal2, Sunil E. Saith1, Morgan Winburn2, Meena Zareh2, Frederick L. Ruberg2, Mathew S. Maurer11Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA

093

Obesity Accelerates Cardiac Senescence In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Frederik H. Verbrugge, Yogesh N. V. Reddy, Zachi I. Attia, Paul A. Friedman, Peter A. Noseworthy, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Suraj Kapa, Barry A. Borlaug. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

094

Mitral Annular Disjunction: A Diagnosis To Save Lives

Nupur Shah1, Aditya Sood2, Anupama Kottam2, Luis Afonso21Saint Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, MI; 2Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

 

Clinical Care

096

Increased Vasoactive Inotrope Score Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement Is Associated With Increased Mortality And Early Right Ventricular Failure

Karl Shaver1, Mohamed H. Derbala1,2,3, Matthew Cefalu1, Joel Ferrall1, Aaron Guo1, Sakima A. Smith1,2,31The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 2The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH; 3Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Columbus, OH

097

Incidence Of Heart Failure In Rheumatoid Arthritis A Review Of Literature And Meta-regression Analysis

Yaser Khalid1, Neethi Dasu2, Ankit Shah2, Kirti Dasu3, Adam Levine41Memorial Health System, Hollywood, FL; 2RowanSOM, Stratford, NJ; 3Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; 4Virtua Health, Cherry Hill, NJ

098

Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis Is Associated With Poor Outcomes

Kaushik Amancherla, Javid Moslehi, Robert Hoffman, JoAnn Lindenfeld. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

099

Should We Continue Wasting Hearts? Outcomes Of Heart Transplantation From Hepatitis C Donors: A Systematic Literature Review.

Josue Villegas-Galaviz, Maya Guglin. Indiana University School of Medicine, Indinapolis, IN

100

Biomarker Guided Therapy For Heart Failure With Mid-Range EF

Alexander T. Michaels1, Edward Peterson1, Jasmine Luzum1, Hongsheng Gui1, Yigal Pinto2, Hani N. Sabbah1, L Keoki Williams1, James Snider3, David E. Lanfear11Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 2University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3Critical Diagnostics, San Diego, CA

101

Myocarditis: An Important Presentation Of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC)

Paul J. Scheel III, Brittney Murrary, Crystal Tichnell, Cynthia James, Harikrishna Tandri, Hugh Calkins, Stephen P. Chelko, Nisha A. Gilotra. Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

102

Performance Evaluation Of A Machine Learning Model For Systematic Identification Of Wild-type Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy At Two Academic Medical Centers

Stephen Heitner1, Miriam R. Elman1, Ahmad Masri1, Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs2, Alex Reyentovich2, Mohammad Ateya3, Birol Emir4, Ryan Fowler4, J. Rebecca Mills4, Kim D. Nolen4, Alexis Sohn4, Ahsan Huda4, Adam Castano4, Marianna Bruno41Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; 2NYU Langone Health, NY, NY; 3Pifzer, NY, NY; 4Pfizer, NY, NY

104

Diagnostic And Prognostic Implications Of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Scoring Systems

Vibhu Parcha1, Rajat Kalra2, Gargya Malla1, Nirav Patel1, Sandra Sanders-van Wijk3, Sanjiv J. Shah4, Garima Arora1, Pankaj Arora11University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 3Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+), Maastricht, Netherlands; 4Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

105

Association Between Sacubitril/valsartan Initiation And Real-world Health Status Trajectories Over 1 Year In Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Merrill Thomas1, Yevgeniy Khariton1, Gregg C. Fonarow2, C. Larry Hill, Jr.3, Laine Thomas3, Michael E. Nassif1, Suzanne Arnold1, Paul C. Chan1, Adam D. DeVore4, Nancy M. Albert5, Javed Butler6, J. Herbert Patterson7, Fredonia B. Williams8, Adrian Hernandez4, John A. Spertus11Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute/University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; 2Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 3Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; 4Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; 5Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 6University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS; 7Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 8Mended Hearts, Huntsville, AL

106

Safety And Effect On Mortality Of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase Stimulators In Heart Failure Patients- A Systemic Review And Meta-analysis.

Anum Asif1, Muhammad Shabbir Rawala2, Faiza Ahmed3, Rawan Shahatit4, Sandeep Aggarwal5, Waqas Javed Siddiqui41University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Rapides Regional Medical Center, Alexandria, VA; 3Wynford Chelation Center, Toronto, ON, Canada; 4Mercer University School of Medicine, Orange Park Medical Center, Orange Park, FL; 5University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

107

Prescription Patterns Of Guideline Directed Therapies And Clinical Outcomes In Patients With Heart Failure, Based On Human Immunodeficiency Virus Status

Mallory Pullman, Jameika Stuckey, Sophia Beddoe, Adebamike Oshunbade, Deborah Minor, Javed Butler, Michael Hall. University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS

108

Sacubitril-valsartan Improves Blood Pressure And Heart Failure In Left Ventricular Assist Device (lvad) Patients

Kristin Freed, Rachel L. Goldberg, Bonnie Marino, Rebecca Fioretti, Nancy Klemans, Chun Woo Choi, Ahmet Kilic, Roberta Florido, Kavita Sharma, Nisha Gilotra, Steven Hsu. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

109

Novel Risk Stratification Score For Hfpef And Afib: HAD-AFIB

Asad Ghafoor1, Rachel Pedersen1, Viviana Zlochiver1, Michael Peterson1, Nasir Sulemanjee1, Vinay Thohan2, Adam Schuldt1, Abdul J. Tajik11Aurora St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI; 2Mission Health System, Asheville, NC

110

The Critical Role Of Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure Saturation In The Standardization Of Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure Measurement.

Michael C. Viray, Eric L. Bonno, Nicholas Gabrielle, Jessica L. Atkins, Nicholas S. Amoroso, Valerian L. C. Fernandez, Anbukarasi Maran, Christopher D. Nielsen, Eric R. Powers, Daniel H. Steinberg, Thomas M. Todoran, Thomas G. Di Salvo, Gregory R. Jackson, Brian A. Houston, Ryan J. Tedford. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

111

BMI Trends In Patients With Ventricular Assist Devices After Bariatric Surgery

Adrian daSilva-deAbreu1,2,3, Bader Aldeen Alhafez4, Yuhamy Curbelo-Pena5, Carl J. Lavie1,2, Hector O. Ventura1,2, Juan F. Loro-Ferrer3, Stacy A. Mandras1,21Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA; 2The UQ Ochsner Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland., New Orleans, LA; 3Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 4The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 5Consorci Sanitari de l'Alt Penedes i Garraf, Barcelona, Spain

112

Elevated Right And Left Sided Filling Pressures Determine Adverse Outcomes In Ambulatory Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Joban Vaishnav, Lisa R. Yanek, Virginia S. Hahn, Eunice Yang, Danielle Hopkins, Rishi Trivedi, Dhananjay Vaidya, David A. Kass, Kavita Sharma. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

113

Burden Of Cardiogenic Shock In Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome: A National Perspective

Moinuddin Syed, Muhammad Zia Khan, Sudarshan Balla. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

114

Safety Profile Of Apixaban For Peri-Procedural Anticoagulation In Heart Transplant Recipients Undergoing Endomyocardial Biopsy

Daniel Daehyun Kim, Nicolas Krepostman, Dalila Masic, Shannon Kuhrau, Eugenia Raichlin, Max Liebo, Alain Heroux, Haseeb Ilias Basha. Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL

115

Evaluation Of Skeletal Muscle Ultrasound For The Assessment Of Body Composition In Healthy Controls And Patients With Heart Failure

Laura Telfer, Joronia Chery, Matthew Lawrence, Abbey Haynes, Amanda R. Vest. Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

116

Bariatric Surgery In Obese Patients With Ventricular Assist Devices: A Single Center Experience

Adrian daSilva-deAbreu1,2,3, Kiran Garikapati1, Bader Aldeen Alhafez4, Sapna Desai1,2, Clement Eiswirth1,2, Selim Krim1,2, Hamang Patel1,2, Hector O. Ventura1,2, Carl J. Lavie1,2, Juan F. Loro-Ferrer3, Stacy A. Mandras1,21Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA; 2The UQ Ochsner Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, New Orleans, LA; 3Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 4The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

117

An Individualized, Alert-based Heartlogic Management Strategy Can Identify Patients At Risk For Impending Heart Failure Events

Aaron Vigdor, David Lin, Amaryah Yaeger, Edo Y. Birati, Jeremy A. Mazurek, Stuart Prenner, Lee R. Goldberg, Monique S. Tanna. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

118

Efficacy And Safety Of Low-dose Intravenous Vitamin K For International Normalized Ratio Reversal In Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients

Vraj K. Patel1, Ian Hollis2, Jason N. Katz3, Christopher V. Chien2, Prashanth Iyer21UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC; 2University of North Carolina Health, Chapel Hill, NC; 3Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

119

Clinical And Imaging Response To Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibitors In Treatment Of Cardiac Sarcoidosis: A Multicenter Experience

Nisha A. Gilotra1, Alison Wand2, Anjani Pillarisetty3, Mithun Devraj4, Noelle Pavlovic2, Sara Ahmed4, Elie Saad2, Carlos Garcia4, Lilja Solnes2, David Okada2, Selma F. Mohammed5, Jan Griffin6, Edward Kasper2, Edward Chen2, Farooq H. Sheikh41Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM), Baltimore, MD; 2JHUSOM, Baltimore, MD; 3Medstar Heart and Vascular Institute (MHVI), Washington, DC; 4MHVI, Washington, DC; 5MHVI, Washington, DC, DC; 6Columbia, NYC, NY

120

Necrotizing Myopathy Resulting In Myocarditis And Sudden Death

Reynaldo Homero Sanchez, Jeremy Slivnick, Ashly Cordero Rivera, Ajay Vallakati. Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

121

Safety And Efficacy Of The HemotagTm Recording Device To Detect Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure

Jesus E. Pino1, Fergie Ramos-Tuarez1, Jhonatan Nieves1, Alberto Sabates1, Samineh Sehatbakhsh1, Dayanand Pradeep1, Pedro Torres1, Tiffany A. Chomko1, Ahmed Abdallah1, Baher Al Abbasi1, Jorge Saona1, Diego Pava2, Kaustubh Kale3, Waqas Ghumman1, Steven Borzak1, Robert Chait11University of Miami/ JFK Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL; 2Aventusoft, Palm Beach, FL; 3Aventusoft LLC, Boca Raton, FL

122

Rural Patients With Heart Failure And Multiple Chronic Conditions: A Cross-Sectional, Descriptive Study

Windy Alonso1, Bunny Pozehl1, Myra Schmaderer1, Theresa Diederich2, Kevin Kupzyk1, Debra Moser31University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; 2Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE; 3University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

123

Aerobic Capacity (V̇O2peak) In Congenital Heart Disease Versus Heart Failure: Prognostic Implications

Andrea Soares, Emily Mansour, Alyssa Puritz, Min Zhao, Chao Cao, Philip M. Barger, Randi Foraker, Susan B. Racette, Linda R. Peterson. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

124

Gender-Specific Outcomes In Patients With Heart Failure And Sepsis Who Received Aggressive Intravenous Fluid Resuscitation.

Baher AL Abbasi, Pedro Torres, Fergie J. Ramos Tuarez, Riya Job, Mohamed Abdul Qader, Kai Chen, Robert Chait, Jesus E. Pino. University of Miami/JFK Medical Center Plan Beach Regional GME Consortium, Atlantis, FL

125

Rising Total Bilirubin After CF-LVAD Implantation Is Highly Associated With Post Left Ventricular Assist Device Mortality

Hirak Shah, Andrew Shaffer, Ranjit John, Maria Masotti, Jessica Schultz, Valmiki Maharaj, Rebecca Cogswell. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

126

Inspire - HF Manifesto Reduces Readmissions And Improves Outcomes In Chronic Heart Failure

Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, Desiree Little, Tamera Querrey, Teresa Mercer, cesar Delgado, Gopi Cherukuri, Aye Win, Timothy Byrne. Arizona Heart Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

127

Effect Of Door To Diuretic Time In Acute Heart Failure

Junaid Mir, Salman Mumtaz, Megan Alan, Theodore bell, Adnan Malik. well span hospital, York, PA

128

Intravenous Sodium Ferric Gluconate Complex And Iron Dextran Are Safe For Administration During Hospitalization For Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Rachel I. Lavelle, Peter R. Unkovic, Ayesha K. Hasan, Kevin T. Kissling. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

129

In Ischemic Cardiomyopathy, Delayed But Not Early Normalization Of The Ejection Fraction Is Associated With Reduced Mortality

Walter B. Schiffer1, Andrew Perry2, Elena Deych1, David L. Brown1, Luigi Adamo11Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO; 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA

130

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Identifies Patients With Worse Cardiorespiratory Fitness In Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction And Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Amr Marawan, Georgia Thomas, Hayley Billingsley, Justin Canada, Dinesh Kadariya, Dave Dixon, Roshanak Markley, Cory Trankle, George Wohlford, Juan Chiabrando, Alessandra Vecchié, Benjamin Van Tassell, Ross Arena, Antonio Abbate, Salvatore Carbone. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

131

Non-cardiac Cause Of Death And Organ Dysfunction Common Among Patients Admitted To The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Scott W. Ketcham1, Erin Ice1, Daniel J. Molling2, Andrea D. Thompson1, Devraj Sukul1, Thomas P. Michael1, Hallie C. Prescott1,21Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor, MI

132

Red Cell Volume Phenotypes In Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients.

John E. Strobeck1, Jonathan Feldschuh2, Marc A. Silver3, Wayne L. Miller41Heart-Lung Center, Hawthorne, NJ; 2Daxor Corporation, New York, NY; 3University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; 4Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

134

Peripartum Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Distinct But Under-Recognized Clinical Syndrome

Chloe Ramirez Biermann, Jenny Wu, Scott Hummel, Ryan Scott, Matthew Konerman, Elizabeth Langen, Melinda B. Davis. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

135

Neprilysin Inhibition Efficacy In Women With Hfpef: Beyond Phenotypes

Annunziata Cotugno1, Lauren Cooper2, Christopher deFilippe21University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 2Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA

136

Impella 5.0 Reduces Vasoactive Agents In Cardiogenic Shock

Michael Bashline1, Olivia Kola2, Adil Yunis1, Jeffrey Fowler1, Gavin Hickey11University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; 2University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

137

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Implementation In Octogenarians And Nonagenarians With Heart Failure And Septic Shock. Implications, And Clinically Relevant Outcomes.

Pedro Torres, Baher Al Abbasi, Fergie Ramos Tuarez, Mohamed Abdul Qader, Riya Job, Kai Chen, Robert Chait, Jesus Pino. University of Miami/JFK, Atlantis, FL

138

Non-invasive Evaluation Of Cardiac Time Intervals By The HemotagTm Recording Device To Tailor Treatment Of Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure

Fergie Ramos-Tuarez1, Jesus E. Pino1, Jhonatan Nieves1, Alberto Sabates1, Samineh Sehatbakhsh1, Dayanand Pradeep1, Pedro Torres1, Baher Al Abbasi1, Jorge Saona1, Ahmed Abdallah1, Kaustubh Kale2, Diego Pava2, Tiffany A. Chomko1, Waqas Ghumman1, Steven Borzak1, Robert Chait11University of Miami/ JFK Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL; 2Aventusoft LLC, Boca Raton, FL

139

Patient And Family Experience Of Transthyretin Amyloidosis: Results Of Two Focus Groups

David Rintell1, Dena Heath2, Jocelyn Ashford3, Florencia Braga Menéndez4, Bruno Gagnon3, Jonathan Fox31BridgeBio, Palo Alto, CA; 2Amyloidosis Research Consortium, Newton, MA; 3Eidos Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA; 4Alianza Argentina de Pacientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

140

Trends In Utilization Of Palliative Care In Acute Heart Failure Admissions

Ahmad Naeem Lone, Muhammad Zia Khan, Muhammad U. Khan, Safi Khan, Sudarshan Balla. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

141

Implementation Of The Surviving Sepsis Campaign In Patients With Heart Failure And Sepsis. Does The Age Matter?

Baher AL Abbasi, Pedro Torres, Fergie J. Ramos, Mohamed Abdul Qader, Riya Job, Kai Chen, Robert Chait, Jesus E. Pino. University of Miami/JFK Medical Center Plan Beach Regional GME Consortium, Atlantis, FL

142

Sacubitril/valsartan 24/26 Mg Dose Is A Predictor For Higher Mortality Rate In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Receiving Sacubitril/valsartan: Interim Results

Kazuhiko Kido1, Christopher Bianco2, Marco Caccamo2, George Sokos21West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; 2West Virginia University Medicine, Morgantown, WV

143

Management Of Heart Failure In Cardiac Amyloidosis Using An Ambulatory Diuresis Clinic: An Analysis Of Safety And Health Care Utilization

Joban Vaishnav1, Abby Hubbard1, Jessica E. Chasler1, Diane Lepley1, Kimberly Cuomo1, Sarah Riley1, Kathryn Menzel1, Johana Fajardo2, Kavita Sharma1, Daniel P. Judge2, Stuart D. Russell3, Nisha A. Gilotra11Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; 3Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

144

Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery In Patients With Ventricular Assist Devices: Systematic Review And Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

Adrian daSilva-deAbreu1,2,3, Bader Aldeen Alhafez4, Yuhamy Curbelo-Pena5, Carl J. Lavie1,6, Hector O. Ventura1,6, Juan F. Loro-Ferrer3, Stacy A. Mandras1,61Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA; 2The UQ Ochsner Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, New Orleans, LA; 3Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 4The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 5Consorci Sanitari de l'Alt Penedes i Garraf, Barcelona, Spain; 6The UQ Ochsner Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland., New Orleans, LA

145

Survey Conducted At An Academic Medical Center Revealed Knowledge Gaps Of Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy Predominantly In Primary Care Providers

Eugenia Raichlin1, Marina Sagalovich21Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 2Pfizer, New York, NY

146

Improvement Of Cardiac Structure And Function In Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy With Inotersen: A Case Report

Rebecca R. Hung1, Amanda Peltier1,2, Robert N. Piana1, Sandip K. Zalawadiya1, Sharon T. Shen1, Stacey A. Goodman3, JoAnn Lindenfeld11Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, Nashville, TN; 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; 3Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN

147

Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists Should Be Used Cautiously In Heart Failure Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

Kevin K. Li, Eleanor R. Christenson, Adam N. Lick, Ken Scholl, Edward M. Geltman. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

148

Malnutrition Risk In Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Noha M. Beleh, Noemi Garg, Lauren Humphrey, Tori L. Melendez, Michael Pan, Matthew C. Konerman, Soctt L. Hummel. Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI

149

Gender Differences In Hispanic Patients Of Mexican Origin Hospitalized With Heart Failure

Beverly Carlson1, Helina Hoyt1, Julie Kunath2,1, Lisa C. Bratzke31San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; 2Pioneers Memorial Hospital, Brawley, CA; 3University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI

150

Remote Monitoring Of Heart Failure Using A Device-Based Multisensor Algorithm

Andrew Chang1, Yang Yang1, Irakli Giorgberidze1,2, Hamid Afshar1,2, Paul Schurmann1,2, Arunima Misra1,21Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

151

Elevated Central Venous Pressure As A Trigger For Right Heart Failure Evaluation In Patients Receiving Left-sided Mechanical Support For Cardiogenic Shock

Evan H. Whitehead1, Katherine Thayer2, Daniel Burkhoff3, Nir Uriel4, E. Magnus Ohman5, William O'Neill6, Navin K. Kapur21Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; 3Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY; 4NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY; 5Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 6Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI

152

Escalating Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support In Worsening Cardiogenic Shock: Feasibility In Advanced Heart Failure Therapy Candidates

Iyad N. Isseh, Sarah Gorgis, Carina Dagher, Shivani Sharma, Mir Babar Basir, Sachin Parikh. Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

153

Management Of Heart Failure Care In Rural West Virginia: A Primary Care Perspective

George G. Sokos, Christopher Bianco, Marco A. Caccamo, Kazuhiko Kido. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

154

In-hospital Outcomes Of Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure And Cirrhosis An Analysis Of The National Inpatient Sample

Yaser Khalid1, Debashis Reja2, Neethi Dasu3, Herman Suga3, Kirti Dasu4, Lucy Joo51Memorial Health System, Hollywood, FL; 2Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; 3RowanSOM, Stratford, NJ; 4Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; 5Jefferson Health NJ, Washington Township, NJ

155

Ten Year Experience With Ultrafiltration For The Management Of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.

Robert A. Watson, Donald Haas, Maureen Hummel, Patricia Barrella. Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, Abington, PA

156

Transitions In Hemometabolic Related Cardiogenic Shock

Jaime Hernandez-Montfort1, Katherine L. Thayer2, Benjamin Schwartz2, Arthur R. Garan3, Claudius Mahr4, Shashank Sihna5, Daniel Burkhoff6, Navin K. Kapur21Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL; 2Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; 3Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, MA; 4University of Washington, Seattle, WA; 5Inova Health, Falls Church, VA; 6Columbia University, New York City, NY

157

Effect Of Anti-diabetic Drugs On Cardiovascular Mortality And Heart Failure Hospitalizations: A Meta-analysis Study

Nitheesha Ganta, Hilda Gonzalez, Richard Ogunti, Isaac Opoku-Asare. Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC

158

Diagnostic Overlap Between Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia And Myocarditis

Tarun Dalia, Farhad Sami, Hamed Hosseinidehkordi, Mohamed El Khashab. Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas, KS

159

Hemodynamic Changes With Left Ventricular Venting In Patients Supported With Va-ecmo For Cardiogenic Shock

Carlotta Perego, Carolyn Rosner, Alexander G. Truesdell, Matthew W. Sherwood, Christopher M. O'Connor, Christopher R. deFilippi, Wayne B. Batchelor, Behnam N. Tehrani. Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA

160

Nitrate Use And Changes In Functional Status In Black Patients With Chronic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Insights From The HF-ACTION Trial

Lonnie T. Sullivan II1, Stephen Greene1, Jie-Lena Sun1, Christopher M. O'Connor1, Brooke Alhanti1, David Whellan2, Ileana L. Piña3,4, William E. Kraus1, Robert J. Mentz11Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; 3Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 4Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI

161

CardioMEMS Sensor Detects Pulmonary Embolism Before Clinical Decompensation

Marie Plumer, Diana O'Neil, Robert Capodilupo. Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, NH

162

Optimal Timing Of Cardiac Catheterization In Patients With Newly Diagnosed Systolic Heart Failure. Is It Time To Rethink Our Approach?

Htoo Kyaw, Michael Grillo, Saikrishna Patibandla, Cesar Ayala-Rodriguez. The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY

163

Early Post-operative Pump Thrombosis In Heartmate 3 LVAD Recipients: A Case Series

Hirak Shah, Andrew Shaffer, Ranjit John, Ryan Knopper, Forum Kamdar, Daniel Garry, Tamas Alexy, Cindy Martin, Rebecca Cogswell. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

164

Management Of Valvular Heart Failure Due To Mechanical Mitral Valve Thrombosis During Pregnancy

Hussain Almusawi1, Adrian daSilva-deAbreu2, David Elizardi2, Thomas Young21Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center, Houma, LA; 2Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA

165

Midodrine As A Bridge To Enable Use Of Life Enhancing Therapies In Chronic Heart Failure

Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, Desiree Little, Teresa Mercer, Tamera Querrey, Sarah Wilmowski, Aye Win, Gopi Cherukuri, Timothy Byrne. Arizona Heart Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

167

Predictors Of Sudden Cardiac Death In Acute Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (hfpef), Analysis Of Unitedstates Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Raj Patel1, Harsh Paragkumar Patel1, Dipesh Ludhwani2, Samarthkumar Thakkar3, Aakash R. Sheth4, Chinmay Jani5, Rajkumar Doshi61Louis A Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL; 2Rosalin franklin, North Chciago, IL; 3Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 4Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA; 5Mount Auburn Hospital-Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA; 6University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV

168

Trends And Outcomes Of The Use Of Ecmo In Combined Septic And Cardiogenic Shock

Kirolos Barssoum1, Hasan F. Othman2, Devesh Rai1, Vishal Parikh1, Scott Feitell11Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Michigan State University/Sparrow Health System, Lansin, MI

169

Clinical Impact Of A Newly Established Heart Failure Practice On 30-day Readmissions

Stuart Russell1, Tanaya Foster1, Pamela Daughtry2, Julia Salas2, Amanda Thompson2, Eleanor Rawls2, Janna C. Beavers2, Priyesh Patel31Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, NC; 3Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC

170

Manifestations Of A Rare Italian Variant Of Transthyretin Amyloidosis

Kartik S. Telukuntla, Arshneel Kochar, Mohammed Kanj, Wael Jaber, Mazen Hanna, Miriam S. Jacob. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

171

Hypertonic Saline For The Treatment Of Diuretic Resistance In Advanced Heart Failure: A Retrospective Analysis From The Cleveland Clinic

Petra Nijst, Kathleen D. Faulkenberg, W.H. Wilson Tang. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

172

Bioimpedance Spectroscopy A Predictor Of Compensated Versus Decompensated Heart Failure In The Emergency Room

Andrew J. Accardi1, James T. Heywood2, Anne Burns21Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas, CA; 2Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA

173

Remote Dielectric Sensing (reds) Use In The Prevention Of Heart Failure Rehospitalizations- A Meta-analysis.

yasar sattar1, Waqas Ullah2, Hiba Rauf3, Homam Moussa Pacha4, Uneza Khuwaja5, Ankur Panchal6, Tanveer Mir7, Donald Haas2, M Chadi Alraies71Icahn school of medicine at mount sinai, Queens, NY; 2Abington Jefferson Health, Abington, PA; 3American Society of Clinical Oncology, Virginia, VA; 4University of Texas, Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute, Houston, TX; 5Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT; 6The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 7Wayne State University/ Detroit Medical Center, detroit, MI

174

Continuation Of Renin-angiotensin System Inhibitors In Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Is Safe And Improves Discharge Therapy

Christian Bernhardi1, Brent Reed1, Gautam Ramani2, Stormi Gale11University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD; 2University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

175

Ruptured Bullae: A Rare Cause Of No-flow Alarms In Ventricular Assist Devices

Adrian daSilva-deAbreu1,2, Oscar Maitas1, Juan P. Rodriguez-Escudero1, Sapna Desai1, Clement Eiswirth1, Selim Krim1, Hamang Patel1, Hector O. Ventura1, Stacy A. Mandras1,21Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA; 2The UQ Ochsner Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland., New Orleans, LA

176

A Rare Case Of Myocarditis, Intracardiac Thrombus And Embolic Stroke Caused By Mycoplasma Pneumoniae

Raksha Kulkarni, Mansi Oberoi, Tony Oliver. University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD

177

Safety Of Ultrasound-guided Bedside Swan-ganz Catheter Insertion In Advanced Heart Failure And Cardiogenic Shock

Alex T. Snyder, Mark Moshiyakhov, Pedram Kazemian, Kulpreet Barn. Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ

 

Clinical Trials

178

A First In Human Multi-center, Open Label, Prospective Study To Evaluate Safety, Usability And Performance Of The VisONE System For Heart Failure With A Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

John G. F. Cleland1, Robin Young1, Ana Jorbenadze2, Tamaz Shaburishvili2, Vitaly Demyanchuk3, Roman Buriak4, Borys Todurov3, Kostyantyn Rudenko4, Michel Zuber5, Simon F. Stämpfli5, Felix C. Tanner5, Paul Erne6, Michael Mirro7, Lee R. Goldberg81Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2Heart and Vascular Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia; 3Heart Center, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine; 4Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kiev, Ukraine; 5Heart Center, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; 6University Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland; 7Indiana University, Fort Wayne, IN; 8Penn Medicine Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

179

Restricted Mean Survival Time For Analysis And Interpretation Of Clinical Trials For Heart Failure Devices

Carlotta Perego1, Marco Sbolli1, Claudia Specchia2, Chiara Oriecuia2, Giulia Peveri3, Mona Fiuzat4, Christopher O'Connor1, Marco Metra2, Lee-Jen Wei5, Mitchell Psotka11Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 2Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 3Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; 4Duke University, Durham, NC; 5Harvard University, Boston, MA

180

Long-term Survival Benefit Of Tafamidis In Patients With Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy

Jignesh Patel1, Perry Elliott2, Balarama Gundapaneni3, Benjamin Li4, Marla Sultan4, Martha Grogan51Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, LA, CA; 2University College London, London, United Kingdom; 3Pfizer, Groton, CT; 4Pfizer, NY, NY; 5Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

181

Functional Capacity, Health-related Quality-of-life And Cardiac Biomarker Improvement With Tafamidis In The Tafamidis In Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy Clinical Trial (ATTR-ACT)

Mazen Hanna1, Nowell Fine2, Michelle Stewart3, Balarama Gundapaneni3, Marla B. Sultan4, Ronald Witteles51Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; 3Pfizer, Groton, CT; 4Pfizer, New York, NY; 5Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

182

Non-participation In A Heart Failure Clinical Trial: Perspectives And Opportunities From The VICTORIA Trial And Simultaneous Registry

Justin Ezekowitz1, Robert J. Mentz2, Cynthia M. Westerhout1, Nancy K. Sweitzer3, Michael M. Givertz4, Ileana L. Piña5, Christopher M. O'Connor6, Stephen J. Greene2, Joerg Koglin7, Lothar Roessig8, Adrian F. Hernandez2, Paul W. Armstrong11Canadian VIGOUR Centre, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 2Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; 3Univ of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ; 4Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 5Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI; 6Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 7Merck & Co, Inc., Kenilworth, NJ; 8Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany

183

Effect Of Vericiguat In Victoria According To Guideline-directed Medical Therapy

Justin Ezekowitz1, Ciaran McMullan2, Cynthia Westerhout1, Ileana L. Piña3, Jose Lopez-Sendon4, Kevin J. Anstrom5, Adrian F. Hernandez5, Carolyn S. P. Lam6, Christopher M. O'Connor7, Burkert Pieske8, Piotr Ponikowski9, Lothar Roessig10, Adriaan A. Voors11, Joerg Koglin2, Paul W. Armstrong1, Javed Butler121CVC, U Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 2Merck, Kenilworth, NJ; 3Wayne State U, Detroit, MI; 4U Hosp La Paz, Madrid, Spain; 5DCRI, Durham, NC; 6Natl Heart Ctr, Singapore, Singapore; 7Inova, Falls Church, VA; 8Charité U Med, Berlin, Germany; 9Wroclaw Med U, Wroclaw, Poland; 10Bayer, Wuppertal, Germany; 11U Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; 12U Mississippi, Jackson, MS

184

Virtual Visits To Optimize Research Trial Offerings To Heart Failure Patients

Laurie Ann Moennich, Barbara Bittel, Jerry Estep. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

185

Assessing For A Differential Treatment Effect With Nesiritide By Body Mass Index

Marius I. Chukwurah1, Marat Fudim1,2, Stephen J. Greene1,2, Jie-Lena Sun2, Brooke Alhanti2, Randall C. Starling3, Robert J. Mentz1,21Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; 3Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

186

Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation Improves Central Sleep Apnea In Heart Failure Patients

Lee R. Goldberg1, Loreena Hill2, Maria Rosa Costanzo3, Ovidiu Chioncel4, Mitja Lainscak5, Scott McKane6, Timothy E. Meyer6, Robin Germany6, Andrew JS Coats71Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Queen's Univ Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom; 3Advocate Heart Institute, Naperville, IL; 4Univ of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; 5General Hospital Murska Sobota, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 6Respicardia, Minnetonka, MN; 7San Raffaele Pisana Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy

187

Elamipretide Prevents The Natural History Progression Of Cardiomyopathy-Related Disease Symptomatology In Patients With Barth Syndrome: A Tazpower Analysis

William Reid Thompson1, Ryan Manuel1, John J. Jones2, Jim Carr2, Brittany Hornby1, Hilary J. Vernon11Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2Stealth BioTherapeutics, Newton, MA

188

Long-term Integrated Safety Of Patisiran In Patients With Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis With Polyneuropathy

Julian Gillmore1, John Berk2, Angela Dispenzieri3, Michael Polydefkis4, Alejandra Gonzalez-Duarte5, Yoshiki Sekijima6, Marianne T. Sweetser7, Seth Arum7, Jing Jing Wang7, Matthew T. White7, Mathew Maurer81University College London, London, United Kingdom; 2Boston University, Boston, MA; 3Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Rochester, MN; 4Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; 5Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico; 6Shinshu University Hospital, Matsumoto, Japan; 7Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA; 8Columbia University, New York, NY

189

Successful Validation Of A Wearable, On-body Infusor For Subcutaneous Administration Of Furoscix® In Heart Failure Patients, Caregivers, And Health Care Practitioners

Anthony D. Andre1, John Mohr2, Barbara Cornelius2, Matthew M. Goodwin2, Carson Whitaker1, Bhavini Patel2, Michael Hassman2, Michael Hassman21Interface Analysis Associates, Saratoga, CA; 2scPharmaceuticals, Burlington, MA

190

Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, And Pharmacodynamics Of Amg 986, A Novel Small Molecule Apelin Receptor Agonist, In Healthy Subjects And Heart Failure Patients

Jennifer Hellawell1, Siddique Abbasi2, Ashit Trivedi2, Kate Tsirtsonis2, Allegra Kaufman21Amgen, South San Francisco, CA; 2Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

191

Adjudication Of Cause-specific Endpoints In Heart Failure Trials

Carlotta Perego1, Marco Sbolli1, Mona Fiuzat2, Peter E. Carson3, Christopher M. O'Connor1, Michael R. Bristow41Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 2Duke University, Durham, NC; 3Washington VA Medical Center, Washington DC, DC; 4University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

192

Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation Is Safe And Effective In Patients With Heart Failure And Cheyne-stokes Respiration

Maria Rosa Costanzo1, Mitja Lainscak2, Andrew Coats3, Stefan Anker4, Scott McKane5, Robin Germany6, Olaf Oldenburg71Advocate Heart Institute, Naperville, IL; 2General Hospital Murska Sobota, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3San Raffaele Pisana Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy; 4Charité University, Berlin, Germany; 5Respicardia, Minnetonka, MN; 6University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; 7Ludgerus-Kliniken Münster, Munster, Germany

193

An Electronically Delivered, Patient-activation Tool For Intensification Of Chronic Medications For Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: The Epic-hf Trial

Grace Venechuk1, Prateeti Khazanie1, Robert Page2, Christopher Knoepke1, Laura Helmkamp1, Pamela Peterson1,3, Kenneth Pierce1, Jocelyn Thompson1, Janice Huang4, James Strader4, Tristan Dow5, Lance Richards5, Katy Trinkley2, David Kao1, Colleen McIlvennan1, David Magid1, Daniel Matlock1, Peter Buttrick1, Larry Allen61University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO; 2University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, Aurora, CO; 3Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO; 4UCHealth Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, CO; 5UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital, Loveland, CO; 6University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO

194

Risk Prediction Models And Risk Factors For Early Heart Failure After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Qiongying Wang. Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China

195

Ckd Increased The Risk Of Adverse Outcomes Shortly After An Acute Community-acquired Pneumonia In Very Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease

Zhao Xiaoqian1, Luo Leiming2, Zhang Jinping1, Liu Yuan2, Fu Shihui2, Li Yulong21The Chinese PLA 305 Hospital, Beijing, China; 2The Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

 

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

196

The Decrease In Hospitalizations For Heart Failure During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Community And Academic Hospital Comparison Study

Amanda R. Vest1, Jenica N. Upshaw1, Kyle Dean2, Erin Donovan3, Nikoloas Diakos1, Christopher Hong3, Laurence Conway4, Michael S. Kiernan1, David DeNofrio1, Marvin A. Konstam11Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Melrose Wakefield Hospital, Melrose, MA; 3Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, MA; 4Melrose Wakefiled Hospital, Melrose, MA

197

Heart Failure Hospitalization Trends During The Early Phase Of The COVID 19 Pandemic

Meg Fraser, Melinda Mutschler, Kerry Sackman, Christie Newman, Tamas Alexy, Daniel Garry, Forum Kamdar, Thenappan Thenappan, Marc Pritzker, Cindy M. Martin, Rebecca Cogswell. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

198

Clinical Implications Of Myocardial Involvement With Covid 19: A Case Control Study

Shruti Hegde1, Magdi Zordok2, Maria Nikolaeva1, Adhiraj Bhattacharya1, Michael Maysky11St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Steward Carney Hospital, Boston, MA

199

Implementation Of A Telemedicine Clinic In The Covid-19 Era

Suzan Khalil, Melissa A. Moore, David J. Cho, Ali Nsair, Sandra J. Rodriguez, Megan Kamath. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

200

Changing Trends Of Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure Reading During Covid-19 Pandemic Stay At Home Orders

Devesh Rai, Muhammad Waqas Tahir, Medhat Chowdhury, Adnan Kharsa, Satish Pandela, Irfan Saddique, Scott Feitell. Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY

201

Heart Transplantation Selection Committee Meetings: Transitioning From In-Person To Remote Video Meetings

Neha V. Chandra, Jeffrey Hsu, Ali Nsair, Rushi V. Parikh. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

202

N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide And Mortality In Patients Without Heart Failure Hospitalized With Severe Covid-19 Pneumonia

Jeanwoo Yoo, Aikaterini Papamanoli, Prabhjot Grewal, Jacquelyn Nakamura, Simrat Dhaliwal, Jenny Fung, Robin Jacob, Joshua Abata, Jessica Hotelling, Nikitha Karkala, Sahil Rawal, Alexandra Coritsidis, To Tsui, Hal Skopicki, Luis A. Marcos, Andreas Kalogeropoulos. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

203

A Case Of Suspected Covid 19 Related Cardiomyopathy

Tamari A. Miller, Sara Kalantari, Jonathan Grinstein, Ann Nguyen, Bow Young Chung, Nitasha Sarswat, Gene Kim, Urooba Nadeem, Aliya Husain, Luise Heddy Holzhauser, Natasha Mehta, Viktoriya Kagan, Colleen Labuhn, Valluvan Jeevanandam, Tae Song, Bryan Smith. The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

204

Characteristics And Outcomes Of Patients With Heart Failure Admitted With Covid-19 In A Cohort Study From Southeast Michigan

Mohamad Raad, Sarah Gorgis, Mohammed Dabbagh, Sachin Parikh, Jennifer Cowger. Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI

205

Should Patients With Severe Obesity Receive Veno-venous Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support In Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome? A Single-center Experience

Ayesha Azmeen1, Naga Vaishnavi Gadela1, Colleen Drake2, Ethan Kurtzman2, David Underhill2, William L. Baker2, Jason A. Gluck2, Abhishek Jaiswal21University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT; 2Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

206

Changes In Care Delivery For Patients With Heart Failure During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Results Of A Multicenter Survey

Colleen K. McIlvennan1, Larry A. Allen1, Adam D. DeVore2, Lisa A. Kaltenbach2, Christopher B. Granger2, Bradi B. Granger21University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; 2Duke University, Durham, NC

207

Accuracy Of Physical Exam In Covid Era.

Anusha Sunkara, Barry Trachtenberg. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

 

Electrophysiology/Arrhythmias

208

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Atrial Fibrillation Development From The 12-lead Electrocardiogram In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Frederik Hendrik Verbrugge, Yogesh N. V. Reddy, Zachi I. Attia, Paul A. Friedman, Peter A. Noseworthy, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Suraj Kapa, Barry A. Borlaug. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

210

Rate-related Left Bundle Branch Block Causing Cardiomyopathy

Auroa Badin1, Katherine Dodd1, Chandra Kunavarapu2, Allen S. Anderson11University of Texas Health Science, San Antonio, TX; 2Texas Transplant Institute, San Antonio, TX

211

Clinical Characteristics And Outcomes Of Temporary Trans-venous Pacing In Atrio-ventricular Block In Acute Myocarditis

Kirolos Barssoum1, Hasan F. Othman2, Devesh Rai1, Mohan Rao11Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Michigan State University/Sparrow Health System, Lansin, NY

212

Trend And Outcomes Of Cardiac Dysrhythmias In Lvad Recipients

Kirolos Barssoum1, Hasan F. Othman2, Devesh Rai1, Mohan Rao11Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Michigan State University/Sparrow Health System, Lansin, MI

213

Acute Heart Failure And Atrial Fibrillation With Rapid Ventricular Response - Role Of Gender And Alcohol In Suspected Tachycardia-induced Cardiomyopathy

Hayaan Kamran, Simarjeet Brar, Sarju Ganatra, Philip Formica, Sachin P. Shah, David M. Venesy, Richard D. Patten. Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

216

Post Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Atrial Arrhythmias And Impact On Length Of Stay

Abdullah Haddad1, David Laslett1, Anjali Vaidya1, Lauren Tragesser2, Raj Dalsania1, Chethan Gangireddy1, Yoshiya Toyoda1, Paul Forfia1, William Auger1, Isaac R. Whitman11Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; 2Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

217

Safety Of Electrical Cardioversion In Patients With Left Ventricular Thrombus

Saqer Alkharabsheh, Muzna Hussain, Omar Gutierrez, Mohamed Khayata, Patrick Collier. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

218

Robust Detection Of Wide Complex Tachyarrhythmias Using Mobile Cardiac Telemetry Monitors

Ruhi Mahajan1, Alok Gambhir2, Sameer Adumala11Zywie, Inc., Johns Creek, GA; 2The Heart Center of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA

219

Autonomic Instability Secondary To Glomus Vagale Paraganglioma

Parth N. Patel, Joseph J. Berman. Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

221

Functional Capacity In Patients Of Severe And Mild Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Muhammad Jawad Javed, Tehreem Qamar Nawaz Warrich, Hemanshi Mistry, Radhika Akku, Ashwini Potharam, Sadaf Afzal, Lan Yang, Esha Mahmood, Sidra Agrawal, Amer Suleman. The Heart Beat Clinic, Dallas, TX

222

Left Ventricular End Diastolic Diameter In Patients Of Mild And Severe Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Tehreem Qamar Nawaz Warrich, Muhammad Jawad Javed, Hemanshi Mistry, Ashwini Potharam, Sadaf Afzal, Radhika Akku, Lan Yang, Esha Mahmood, Sidra Agrawal, Amer Suleman. The Heart Beat Clinic, Dallas, TX

 

Epidemiology/Prevention

223

Efficacy Of Carvedilol In Preventing Anthracycline-induced Cardiotoxicity: A Meta-analysis Of Randomized Controlled Trials

Frederick Berro Rivera, John Vincent Magalong, Estreller Sachiko, Harold Henrison Chiu, Jose Donato Magno, Anonuevo John. University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines

224

The Role Of Reproductive Factors In Risk Prediction Of Incident Heart Failure In White And Black Women: The Women’s Health Initiative

Priya P. Mehta1, Hongyan Ning1, Amanda M. Perak1, Abbi Lane-Cordova2, Mercedes Carnethon1, Sanjiv J. Shah1, William Grobman1, Philip Greenland1, Norrina B. Allen1, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones1, Sadiya S. Khan11Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia, SC

225

Trends In Heart Failure Mortality Disparities Before And After The Implementation Of The Affordable Care Act: The Chicago Experience

Ethan Klepitsch1, Anthony Anya2, Faraz S. Ahmad1, Cornelius Conway3, Ian Everitt1, Dionne Ibekie4, Edwin Mandieka1, Bryan A. Smith5, Quentin R. Youmans1, Ike S. Okwuosa11Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Georgetown University School of Medicine, DC, DC; 3Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL; 4HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital., Decatur, IL; 5University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

226

Novel County-Level Non-Communicable Disease Risk (NCDR) Groups are Associated with Contemporary Cardiovascular Mortality Related to Heart Failure in the United States, 2016-18

Quentin Youmas, Megan McCabe, Clyde W. Yancy, Lucia Petito, Kiarra N. Kershaw, Norrina B. Allen, Sadiya S. Khan. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

227

Use Of Google Trends As A Novel Epidemiological Tool

Aakash R. Sheth1, Ruchi Bhandari2, Harsh P. Patel3, Samarthkumar Thakkar4, Raj Patel3, Paari Dominic11LSU Shreveport, Shreveport, LA; 2West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; 3Louis A Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL; 4Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY

228

Trends In Hypertension Related Cardiovascular Mortality In The United States, 2000-2018

Leah Rethy, Nilay Shah, James J. Paparello, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Sadiya S. Khan. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

229

Characteristics And Outcomes Of A Real-world Population With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Representative Of Clinical Trial Patients

Sarah S. Cohen1, Eric Farber-Eger2, Loren Lipworth2, John Umejiego3, Ricardo Dent3, Paul Dluzniewski3, Quinn S. Wells21ToxStrategies, Cary, NC; 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; 3Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA

230

Temporal Trends Of Wild-type Attr Amyloidosis In The Transthyretin Amyloidosis Outcomes Survey

Jose Nativi-Nicolau1, Alfonso Siu1, Angela Dispenzieri2, Mathew S. Maurer3, Claudio Rapezzi4, Arnt Kristen5, Pablo Garcia-Pavia6, Samantha LoRusso7, Marcia Waddington-Cruz8, Olivier Lairez9, Ronald Witteles10, Doug Chapman11, Denise Rill12, Jan Kiszko13, Leslie Amass13, Martha Grogan21University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons., New York, NY; 4University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 5University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 6Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madr, Spain; 7The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 8Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 9Toulouse University Hosptial, Toulouse, France; 10Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 11Pfzier Inc, New York, NY; 12Pfizer, Inc, New York, NY; 13Pfizer Inc., New York, NY

231

Prognostic Value Of Serum Sodium On Admission For In-hospital Mortality In Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure

xuemei zhao, Changhong zou, yuhong wang, yuhui zhang, jian zhang. Fuwai hospital, Beijing, China

232

Quality Of Life And Its Determinants In Heart Failure Patients At A Major Tertiary Academic Center In Ontario, Canada

Bianca Fukakusa, Alison Magi, Alex Grinvalds, Tara McCready, Salim Yusuf, Eva M. Lonn. McMaster University and Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada

233

Prevalence And Clinical Factors Correlated With Sleep Apnea In Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

yunhong wang, mei zhai, qiong zhou, xuemei zhao, shiming ji, yuhui zhang, jian zhang. Fuwai hospital, Beijing, China

234

Food Deserts And Risk For Rehospitalization In Heart Failure Patients

Christopher Gans, Stephen T. Phillips. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

235

Trends In Adult Heart Transplantation And Associated Outcomes- Analysis Of The Unos Registry

Emmanuel Akintoye, Paulino Alvarez, Alexandros Briasoulis. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

236

Gender, Racial And Ethnicity Based Trends In Acute Congestive Heart Failure Admissions

Ahmad Naeem Lone, Muhammad Zia Khan, Muhammad U. Khan, Safi Khan, Sudarshan Balla. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

237

Patients With P.V142I Transthyretin Mutation: Insights From A Genetic Testing Program

Keyur Shah1, Naresh Bumma2, Diego Delgado3, Chafic Karam4, Andrew Keller1, Sami Khella5, Aaron Gabriel6, Arvind Narayana6, Kemi Olugemo61VCU Health System, Richmond, VA; 2The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 3University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; 4Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; 5University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 6Akcea Therapeutics, Boston, MA

238

The Incremental Burden Of Atrial Fibrillation And Heart Failure: A Real-world Claims-based Analysis

David Lanctin1, William D. Irish2, Candace Gunnerson31Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN; 2East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; 3Imperium Statistical Consulting, Jupiter, FL

239

Genotypic And Phenotypic Differences And Similarities Among Patients With Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases: Insights From A Genetic Testing Program

Andrew Keller1, Keyur Shah1, Diego Delgado2, Ajay Vallakati3, Olakunle Akinboboye4, Catherine Marti5, Jill Dolinsky6, Aaron Gabriel7, Arvind Narayana7, Kemi Olugemo71VCU Health Systems, Richmond, VA; 2University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 4Laurelton Heart Specialist PC, Rosedale, NY; 5Piedmont Heart Institute, Athens, GA; 6Ambry Genetics, Aliso Viego, CA; 7Akcea Therapeutics, Boston, MA

240

Association Of Secondary Diagnosis Of HF With 90-day Mortality In Acutely Ill Patients

Marva Foster1, Haley Hunter-Zinck2,1,3, Jacob Joseph1,41VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA; 2University of California, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Berkeley, CA; 3University of California, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, San Francisco, CA; 4Brigham &Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

241

Dietary Supplementation Of Extra Virgin Olive Oil In Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Is Associated With Increases In Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Hayley Ellis Billingsley1,2, Justin M. Canada2, Brando Rotelli2, Dinesh Kadariya2, Horacio Medina De Chazal2,3, Roshanak Markley2, Benjamin W. Van Tassell1,2, Antonio Abbate2, Salvatore Carbone1,21Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 2Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA; 3Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

242

Disparities In Implantable Ventricular Assist Device Utilization: Observation From Nationwide Inpatient Database

Bertrand F. Ebner, Jennifer Maning, Louis Vincent, Jelani Grant, Neal Olarte, Odunayo Olorunfemi, Rosario Colombo. Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL

243

Analysis Of Clinical Characteristics Of Patients With Heart Failure And Intracardiac Thrombosis

mei zhai, lang zhao, yunhong wang, yan huang, Chonghong zou, xuemei zhao, qiong zhou, yuhui zhang, jian zhang. Fuwai hospital, Beijing, China

 

Management Strategies/Adherence/Self Care

244

Potential SCG Predictors Of Heart Failure Readmission

Richard Sandler1,2, Peshala Gamage1, Md Khushidul Azad1, Rajkumar Dhar1, Nirav Raval3, Robert Mentz4, Hansen Mansy1,21University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; 2Biomedical Acoustics Research Co, Orlando, FL; 3Advent Health, Orlando, FL; 4Duke University, Durham, NC

245

Non-invasive Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension Using a Small Portable Device Measuring Cardiac Intervals: Design for Telemonitoring

John J. Lee1, Hernando Torres1, Daniela Urina1, Tarec Elajami1, Diego Pava2, Kaustubh Kale2, Esteban Escolar11Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL; 2Aventusoft, Boca Raton, FL

246

Hemodynamic Monitoring Equally Reduces Heart Failure Hospitalizations In Women And Men In Clinical Practice: CardioMEMS Post-Approval Study

Ersilia M. DeFilippis1, Kelly Axsom1, John Henderson2, Maria Rosa Costanzo3, Philip B. Adamson2, Alan B. Miller4, Marie-Elena Brett2, Michael M. Givertz51Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Abbott, Atlanta, GA; 3Advocate Heart Institute, Naperville, IL; 4University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL; 5Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

247

An Interactive Dialogue Agent To Assist African American And Hispanic/Latino Heart Failure Patients With Self-Care Needs

Itika Gupta, Devika Salunke, Barbara Di Eugenio, Paula G. Allen-Meares, Carolyn A. Dickens, Olga Garcia-Bedoya, Andrew D. Boyd. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

248

Computational And Mechanical Modeling Of SCG Signals

Richard H. Sandler1,2, Peshala Gamage1, Md Khushidul Azad1, Rajkumar Dhar1, Andrew Spiewak1, Nirav Y. Raval3, Robert J. Mentz4, Hansen Mansy1,21University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; 2Biomedical Acoustics Research Co, Orlando, FL; 3Advent Health, Orlando, FL; 4Duke University, Durham, NC

249

Data Science And Computational Linguistics On A Collection Of Interviews With Family Caregivers In Heart Failure

Soyoung Choi, Lisa Kitko, Judith E. Hupcey, Barbara Birriel, Suhang Wang. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

250

Development And Pilot Testing Of A Tailored Text Messaging Intervention To Improve Self-efficacy And Health Beliefs About Self-care In People With Heart Failure

Spyros Kitsiou1, Ben Gerber1, Susan Buchholz2, Mayank Kansal1, Jinsong Chen1, Lauren Nawrocki1, Jonathan Leigh1, Antonio Nieto1, Ayomide Owoyemi1, Susan Pressler31University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Rush University, Chicago, IL; 3Indiana University, Chicago, IL

251

A Novel Approach Using Remote Speech Analysis In Chronic Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients Allows Early Detection Of Clinical Decompensation Leading To Hospitalization

Offer Amir1, Tuvia Ben-Gal2, Jean Marc Weinstein3, Daniel Murninkas4, Zaza Iakobishvili4, Chaim Yosefy5, Michael Kleiner Shochat6, Robert Dragu7, Elisha Ouzan1, Zaher S. Azzam8, Chaim Lotan1, Elazer R. Edelman9,10, Stefan D. Anker11, Ilan D. Shallom12, Ronit Haviv12, Sean P. Pinney13, Daniel Burkhoff14, William T. Abraham151Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; 2Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel; 3Soroka University Medical Centre, Beer Sheva, Israel; 4Clalit Health Services, Bat-Yam, Israel; 5Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel; 6Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel; 7Hagalil Medical Center, Naharia, Israel; 8Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel; 9Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT, Boston, MA; 10Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 11Charite University, Berlin, Germany; 12Cordio Medical, Or-Yehuda, Israel; 13University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 14Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY; 15Ohio State University Hospital, Ohio, OH

252

Implications Of Post-Discharge Care Coordination On Survival And Healthcare Utilization For Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients

Varinder K. Randhawa, Kimberly D. Bischel, Alexander Milinovich, Christina Felix, Nicole Zimmerman, Jay L. Alberts, Randall C. Starling, Corinne Bott-Silverman, WH Wilson Tang, Antonio L. Perez. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

253

Self-care In Persons With Heart Failure And Diabetes Differs By Comorbidity Clusters

Sandra B. Dunbar1, Melinda K. Higgins1, Carolyn M. Reilly1, Rebecca A. Gary1, Javed Butler21Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS

254

Levels Of Illness Uncertainty Vary By Heart Failure Symptom Cluster Group

Kristen A. Sethares, Jennifer Viveiros. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA

255

Remote But Together: Live-video Group Exercise Via Zoom For Heart Failure Patients Has High Adherence And Satisfaction

Katherine Platz1, Soojung Ahn1, Gabriela Toledo1, Jennifer Miller2, Misook Chung2, Steven Malin1, Sula Mazimba1, Jill Howie Esquivel11University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 2University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

256

Personalized Activated Technology With Heart Failure Disease Specific Functionality

Nawar Shara1, Selma Mohammed2, Margret Bjarnadottir3, Lida Anna Apergi3, Kelley M. Anderson41MedStar Health, Research Institute, Washington, DC; 2MedStar, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; 3University of Maryland, College Park, MD; 4Georgetown University, Washington, DC

258

Myocardial Recovery In Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Goal Directed Medical Therapy

Kelly C. McCants1, Bassil Bassil Alkhalil1, Cynthia Gardner1, Dana Dana Newhouse1, Kimberly Kimberly Vessels1, John Kennedy1, Sara Del Busto1, Haree Vongooru2, Amaninderapal S. Ghotra21Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY; 2St Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood, KY

259

Sacubitril/valsartan Initiation And Adherence Patterns Following Hospitalization For Heart Failure

Anthony P. Carnicelli1, Stephen Greene1, Steven Lippmann1, Robert J. Mentz1, Melissa Greiner1, Chantelle Hardy1, Bradley G. Hammill1, Xian Shen2, Clyde Yancy3, Pamela Peterson4, Larry A. Allen4, Gregg C. Fonarow5, Emily O'Brien11Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; 2Novartis, East Hanover, NJ; 3Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 4University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO; 5University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

260

Documenting Spatial Variation Of SCG Signals For Optimal Sensor Placement

Richard H. Sandler1,2, Md Khushidul Azad1, John D'Angelo1, Peshala Gamage1, Nirav Y. Raval3, Robert J. Mentz4, Hansen A. Mansy1,21University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; 2Biomedical Acoustics Research Company, Orlando, FL; 3Advent Health, Orlando, FL; 4Duke University, Durham, NC

262

Influences Of Race And Sex On Self-Care For Persons With Heart Failure And Diabetes  

Erica N. Davis, RN, BSN, Sandra Dunbar, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA, FPCNA, Melinda Higgins, PhD. Emory University, Atlanta, GA

263

Quantitative Data Collection To Enhance Use Of A Heart Failure Self-care Application

Akachukwu Nwakoby1, Sahr Wali2, Dilani Wijesena1, Lawrence Mbuagbaw1, Catherine Demers11McMaster, Hamilton, ON, Canada; 2U of T, Toronto, ON, Canada

264

Frequency Of Transition To Oral Loop Diuretics Prior To Discharge.

Tiffany Wu, Stephanie Dwyer Kaluzna, Robert J. DiDomenico. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

266

Respect The Notch: Under-appreciated Pulmonary Vascular Disease And Hemodynamic Collapse Post Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement

Anil Kumar Jonnalagadda, Ahmed S. Sadek, Abhishek Singh. Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

267

Patients Report Enhanced Control Over Their Heart Failure During Ambulatory Hemodynamic Monitoring

Lisa D. Rathman1, Samuel Sears2, Robert C. Bourge3, Akshay S. Desai4, J. Thomas Heywood5, John Henderson6, Philip B. Adamson6, Marie-Elena Brett7, Lynne W. Stevenson81Lancaster General Health/PENN Medicine, Lancaster, PA; 2East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; 3University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 4Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 5Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA; 6Abbott, Atlanta, GA; 7Abbott, Boston, MA; 8Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

268

Oral Anticoagulation In Heart Failure With Atrial Fibrillation: Are We Taking The Right Steps Towards Guidelines?

Zainab Atiyah Dakhil1, Hasan Ali Farhan2, Hind Saeed Hasan31Baghdad University/ Al-Kindy college of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq; 2Iraqi Scientific Council of Cardiology Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations/ Baghdad/ Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq; 3Medical City/ Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq

269

Prevalence, Predictors And Prognostic Value Of Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling And Relapse In Patients Hospitalized With Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Long-term Echocardiographic Follow-up

Chang Hong Zou, Jian Zhang. Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

270

Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation Impedance Decrease Prior To Haert Failure Hospitalization

Sitaramesh Emani1, Scott W. McKane2, Henrik Fox31The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 2Respicardia, Inc., Minnetonka, MN; 3Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

271

Distractions When Viewing In-hospital Heart Failure Self-Care Videos And Change In Heart Failure Self-Care Knowledge

Jacqueline E. Nowlin1, Bevery Will2, James F. Bena3, Shannon L. Morrison4, Nancy M. Albert41Cleveland Clinic South Pointe, Warrensville Heights, OH; 2Cleveland Clinic Avon, Avon, OH; 3Cleveland Clinic South Pointe, Cleveland, OH; 4Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

 

Molecular Biology/Genetics/Cell Therapy

272

Neurofilament Light Chain May Serve As A Biomarker Of Neuropathy In Hattr Amyloidosis With Cardiomyopathy

Simina Ticau, Gautham Sridharan, Shira Tsour, William Cantley, Amy Chan, Jason A. Gilbert, David Erbe, John Vest, Kevin Fitzgerald, Akshay Vaishnaw, Emre Aldinc, Paul Nioi. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

273

The V122I Variant In Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis Is Significantly Associated With Polyneuropathy

Margaret M. Parker1, Scott M. Damrauer2,3, Catherine Tcheandjieu4,5, David Erbe1, Emre Aldinc1, Philip N. Hawkins6, Julian Gillmore6, Leland E. Hull7,8, Julie A. Lynch9,10, Jacob Joseph11,12, Simina Ticau1, Alexander O. Flynn-Carroll1, Aimee M. Deaton1, Lucas D. Ward1, Themistocles L. Assimes4,5, Philip S. Tsao4,5, Kyong-Mi Chang2,3, Daniel J. Rader2, Kevin Fitzgerald1, Akshay K. Vaishnaw1, Gregory Hinkle1, Paul Nioi11Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA; 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; 4VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA; 5Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; 6Centre for Amyloidosis & Acute Phase Proteins, London, United Kingdom; 7Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA; 8Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 9VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT; 10University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; 11VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA; 12Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

274

Vitamin D Binding Protein As A Potential Biomarker For Heart Failure In Myocarditis: Translational Animal Model Reveals Mechanism

Katelyn A. Bruno1,2, Erika A. Douglass1,2, Gary Salomon1, Angita Jain1, Leslie T. Cooper1, Michael J. Coronado2, Richard R. Kew3, DeLisa Fairweather1,21Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; 2Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; 3Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

275

Asymptomatic Individuals With Family History Of Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis Can Be Detected Almost Two Decades Earlier Than Symptomatic Probands

Matteo Vatta1, Sachin Shah2, Tom Winder1, Robert Nussbaum1, Ana Morales1, Sara Bristow1, Rebecca Truty1, Tom Callis1, Ruthvik Malladi2, Barry Trachtenberg31Invitae Corp, San Francisco, CA; 2Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Cambridge, MA; 3Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

276

A Phase I Study Of Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy In Patients With Heart Failure Secondary To Anthracycline-induced Cardiomyopathy: The Cctrn Stem Cell Injection In Cancer Survivors (Seneca) Trial

Roberto Bolli1, Emerson C. Perin2, James T. Willerson2, Phillip C. Yang3, Jay H. Traverse4, Timothy D. Henry5, Carl J. Pepine6, Raul D. Mitrani7, Joshua M. Hare7, Michael P. Murphy8, Joao A. Lima9, Adrian P. Gee10, Doris A. Taylor2, Dejian Lai11, Ray F. Ebert12, Barry R. Davis13, Robert D. Simari141University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; 2Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX; 3Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 4Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; 5The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; 6University of Florida, Gainsville, FL; 7University of Miami, Miami, FL; 8Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; 9Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; 10Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Houston, TX; 11UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, VT; 12NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD; 13UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, TX; 14University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS

277

Unrelated Individuals Of Self-Reported White/Caucasian Ancestry With The P.Val142Ile (V122I) Variant Of Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis Are Phenotypically Similar To Those With Self-Reported Black/African-American Ancestry

Matteo Vatta1, Sachin Shah2, Tom Winder1, Robert Nussbaum1, Ana Morales1, Sara Bristow1, Rebecca Truty1, Tom Callis1, Ruthvik Malladi2, Barry Trachtenberg31Invitae Corp, San Francisco, CA; 2Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Cambridge, MA; 3Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

278

Endothelial To Mesenchymal Transition And The Reverse Contributes To Heart Failure And Recovery Thereafter

Hernan G. Marcos-Abdala, Keith A. Youker, Guillermo Torre-Amione, Arvind Bhimaraj. Houston Methodist hospital, Houston, TX

 

Performance Improvement Initiatives / Case Studies

279

Reengineering The Discharge Management Of Heart Failure Patients Discharged To Skilled Nursing Facilities Utilizing A Multidisciplinary Team Approach Reduces 30-day Readmission Rate.

Kris-Angelo Natividad1, Alexandra Spivak1, Norbert Moskovits1, Patricia Ursomanno1, Aleksandar Adzic1, Rivka Mintz1, Jeffrey Bander2,3, Jason Zimmerman4,11Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; 2The Allure Group, Brooklyn, NY; 3Mount Sinai West, New York, NY; 4Boro Park Center, Brooklyn, NY

280

How Standardization Of Diagnosing And Treating Decompensated Heart Failure Affects Emergency Department And Hospital Length Of Stay Across A Large Healthcare System

Andrew Cheng, Daniel Ng, Antonio Christophy, Lauren Wolman, Norma Vernon, Ajay Srivastava. Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA

281

Successful Induction Of Drug Tolerance To Tafamidis For Cardiac Amyloidosis: First Reported Case

Samarthkumar Thakkar1, Mohammad Abu Sheikha1, Mary Staicu1, Syed Mustafa1, Scott C. Feitell21Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Sands-Constellation Heart Institute, Rochester, NY

282

Concurrent Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis And Light Chain Amyloidosis Of The Foregut

Bryan E-Xin Tan1, Samarthkumar Thakkar1, Vishal Parikh21Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Sands Constellation Heart Institute, Rochester, NY

283

Anakinra Could Be A Glucocorticoid-sparing Alternative For Colchicine-intolerant/refractory Gout Flare In Acute Heart Failure; Case Series

Muhammad Hamza Saad Shaukat, Muhammad Asim Shabbir, Sukhraj Singh, Mikhail Torosoff, Ruben Peredo-Wende. Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

284

Tolerability And Effect Of Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitors In Adult Congenital Patients With Systemic Right Ventricle

Jonathan C. McCollum, Georges A. Ephrem, Maya E. Guglin, Roopa A. Rao. Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

285

Improving Preparedness, Management, And Quality Of Care For Unresponsive Lvad Patients

Namit Rohant, Rebecca Kocak. University of South Carolina/Prisma Health, Columbia, SC

286

Treatment Of Acute Hemorrhagic Shock In A Jehovah’S Witness Patient With A Heartmate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device

Elie Pierre Dib, Mojahed Shalabi, Amit Alam, Dan Meyer, Shelley Hall, Detlef Wencker. Baylor Scott and White, Dallas, TX

287

A Safe And Simple Method For Ambulatory Iabp Placement Using Left Axillary-radial Technique

Vatsal Bajpai, Benjamin Maatman, Hugo Rios-Meza, Maya Guglin, George Revtyak. Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

288

When SLE Holds The Key To The Heart's Malady

Mrinali Shetty. University of Chicago (NorthShore), Evanston, IL

289

Nurse Coordinator Driven Anticoagulation Protocol Can Be A Reliable Tool To Safely Manage Inrs In Lvad Patients

Sarah Birk1, Amanda Ingemi2, Patricia Bourassa2, Karl Neumann2, Margaret Sullivan2, Amy Tarbay2, Carly Pine2, Kristina Louka2, Mindy Seigh2, Hannah Cassa2, Nicole Sellars2, Claudia Ford2, Julia Spruill2, Lauren Feeney2, Dede Mandara2, Edward Sawey2, Amit Badiye2, Wayne Old2, David Baran2,1, John Herre2,1, Amin Yehya2,11Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA; 2Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA

290

Fulminant Lymphocytic Myocarditis Possibly Secondary To Rhinovirus Infection In An Adolescent Female

Kristin Stawiarski, Michael Beasley, Daniel Jacoby. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

291

Ablation Of Ventricular Tachycardia Storm In A Patient With Biventricular Mechanical Support Devices - A Case Report

Darius J. Farzad, Stephen Melnick, Reginald Ho, Mahek Shah, Rene J. Alvarez, Alec Vishnevsky, Howard T. Massey, Preethi Pirlamarla. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

292

Does Allosure Scoring Rise In The Setting Of Cytomegalovirus (cmv)? A Case Series

Sandra A. Carey, Aasim Afzal, Aayla Jamil, Shelley Hall. Baylor Scott and White HCS, Dallas, TX

293

Reversal Of Acute Pacing-induced Cardiomyopathy By Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy In Setting Of Post-tavr Heart Block

Jian Hu, Kartikeya Kashyap, Adee Elhamdani, Farhan Katchi, Vinh Nguyen. Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA

294

Outpatient Ultrafiltration To Prevent Hospital Readmission During Covid 19 Pandemic In Diuretic Intolerant Patient: Case Study

Jeanne Livorsi-Moore, Owais Malick, Ali Valika. Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove, IL

295

A Rare Case Of Dysferlinopathy Causing Cardiomyopathy

Nicolas Krepostman1, Nimit Desai1, Peter Pytel2, Ryan Jacobson3, Gregory Aubert1, Eugenia Raichlin11Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 2University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 3Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

296

NuPulse Or No Pulse: VT Ablation In A Patient With The NuPulse Ivas Device

Mrinali Shetty1, Mark Metzl2, Sarah J. Edwards2, Charu Gupta21University of Chicago (NorthShore), Evanston, IL; 2NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL

297

Integrated Nurse Practitioner And Pharmacist Post-discharge Heart Failure Clinic: Impact On Patient Outcomes

Magdalena M. Siodlak, Christine Sgarlata, Irene W. Chung, Anita Kashyap, David R. Murray. William S. Middleton VA Hospital, Madison, WI

298

When The “Genes” No Longer Fit: An Unusual Presentation Of LMNA-related Cardiomyopathy

Justin Arunthamakun, Timothy Gong, Joshua Rutland, Matthew Wainwright, Dan Meyer, William C. Roberts, Praveen Rao, Amit Alam, Shelley Hall. Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

299

Management Of Post Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture In Contemporary Era

Sheraz Hussain1, Jessica Pillarella1, Sunil Pauwaa2, Gregory Macaluso2, Anjali Joshi2, Christopher Sciamanna2, Nikhil Narang2, Antone Tatooles2, Patroklos Pappas2, William Cotts2, Ambar Andrade21UIC Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL; 2Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL

301

Utilization Of PCSK-9 Inhibitors In Statin Intolerant Cardiac Transplant Patients

Jonathan C. McCollum, Julie M. Clary, Maya E. Guglin, Roopa A. Rao. Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

302

Impact Of Aggressive Transitional Care Strategies On Reducing Adverse Outcomes In Veterans Hospitalized For Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Tyler N. Engel1, Magdalena Siodlak2, Peter Marogil2, Fauzia Osman1, David R. Murray1,21UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; 2William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI

303

De Novo Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension After Heart Transplantation

Syed A. Ahsan1, Joseph I. Berger2, Gregg Lanier11Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY; 2St George's University, True Blue, Grenada

304

Reducing The Rate Of Inappropriate Inpatient Transthoracic Echocardiograms Through An Educational Intervention

Andrew Chang1, Melissa McCormack1, Adam Combiths1, Cyrus Iqbal1, Frederick Peng1, Nanfu Deng1, Sabina Pathan1, Lindsey Gay1,2, Lindsay Vaclavik1,21Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

305

Positively Double Jeopardy - Dual Organ Transplantation In An HIV+ Patient

Katherine S. Dodd, Kambiz Ghafourian, Valentina Stosor, Amit A. Pawale, Duc Thinh Pham, Faraz S. Ahmad, Ike S. Okwuosa, Jonathan D. Rich, Esther E. Vorovich, Jane E. Wilcox, Anjan Tibrewala, Clyde W. Yancy. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

306

A Protocolized Approach For Dexmedetomidine Use In The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Sarah K. Adie1, Ahmad A. Abdul-Aziz1, Scott W. Ketcham1, Ran Lee21University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

308

Cangrelor As An Effective Bridge In Patients Requiring Percutaneous Coronary Intervention And Temporary Mechanical Support

John Ning, Shivtej Kaushal, Evan Klein, Joel Feih, Nunzio Gaglianello. Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI

309

When Opportunity Strikes: A Case Of A 67-year-old With History Of Cardiac Transplant Developing New-onset Seizures

Christo T. Mathew1, Gregory P. Milligan2, Cesar Guerrero-Miranda2, Detlef Wencker2, Daniel Enter2, Katherine Thornton2, Aldo Rafael2, Amit Alam2, Shelley Hall21Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Bryan, TX; 2Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

310

A Rare Case Of Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy: Diagnostic Dilemma

Lowell Safren, Awais Malik, Ajay Kadakkal, Farooq Sheikh. MedStar Health, Washington, DC

311

When Third Time’s A Charm: Successful Outcome After Third Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Srikant Patlolla, Timothy Gong, Dan Meyer, Lexy Davidge, Mojahed Shalabi, Kara Monday, Amit Alam, Shelley Hall. Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

312

Optimizing Patient Access To Tafamidis For Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy In A Medically Underserved Community

Amy D. Brewster, Mallory T. Baird, Athena L. V. Hobbs, Samantha Bacon, Dmitry M. Yaranov. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN

313

Internship With Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Team As A Meaningful High School Student Experience

Bruno Stehlik1, Camila Vargas2, Ashley Elmer2, Erin Davis2, Line Kemeyou2, Omar Wever Pinzon2, Kevin Bryant2, Scott Lawson2, Stavros G. Drakos2, Craig G. Selzman21Waterford School, Salt Lake City, UT; 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

314

Intracardiac Thrombus In Sinus Rhythm: A Case Of Missed Cardiac Amyloidosis

Jennifer DeSalvo1, Benjamin Buck2, Ajay Vallakati21The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center/Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH; 2The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

 

Quality of Care/Outcomes

315

3 Year Clinical Outcomes From The IHVI Multidisciplinary Cardiogenic Shock Program

Annunziata Cotugno1, Carolyn Rosner2, Alexander Truesdell2, Matthew Sherwood2, Christopher O'Connor2, Christopher Defilippi2, Wayne Batchelor2, Behnam Tehrani21University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 2Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA

316

Disposition Status And Healthcare Cost Among Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Systolic Heart Failure

Lauren B. Cooper, Mitchell A. Psotka, Robert T. Cole, Shashank S. Sinha, Abdulla Damluji. Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA

317

Home Is Where The Heart Is: The Impact Of Home-Based Palliative Care On Patients With Advanced Heart Failure

Joshua E. Dowd1, Paul Zimmerman2, Christopher Rowe1, Elizabeth Volz2, Laura Patel11Transitions LifeCare, Raleigh, NC; 2The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

319

Comparing The Effect Of Systolic Dysfunction On Outcomes By Sex In Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Hasan Ali1, Lin Zhong1, Nicholas Hendren1, W. H. Wilson Tang2, Ambarish Pandey1, Mark H. Drazner1, Justin L. Grodin11UT Southwestern Medical Center, DALLAS, TX; 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

320

Impact Of Comorbidities And Outcomes In Patient With Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy With And Without Chronic Liver Disease

Bertrand F. Ebner, Jennifer Maning, Jelani Grant, Louis Vincent, Neal Olarte, Odunayo Olorunfemi, Rosario Colombo. Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL

321

Stress And Coping Among Caregivers Of Patients With A Left Ventricular Assist Device: A Multi-center Mixed Methods Study

Colleen K. McIlvennan, Jacqueline Jones, Marybeth Makic, Paula Meek, Erin Chaussee, Jocelyn Thompson, Daniel Matlock, Larry Allen. University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

322

Clinical Impact Of Functional Independent Measure (FIM) On The Prognosis Of Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Kentaro Iwata1, Takeshi Kitai1, Akihiro Honda1, Takayuki Shimogai1, Shuto Otsuka1, Ryuya Takimoto1, Yutaka Furukawa1, Nobuo Kohara1, Akira Ishikawa21Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, minatojima minamimachi, chuou-ku, Kobe, Japan; 2Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, tomogaoka, suma-ku, Kobe, Japan

323

Change In Health-related Quality Of Life From Before To 1 Year After Surgery: Findings From Sustain-it

Kathleen L. Grady1, Adin-Cristian Andrei1, Tingqing Wu1, Anna Warzecha1, Andrew Kao2, John Spertus3, Mary Amanda Dew4, Christopher Sciortino5, Duc Thinh-Pham1, Eileen Hsich6, William Cotts7, Justin Hartupee8, Michael Petty9, Salpy Pamboukian10, Francis Pagani11, Brent Lampert12, Maryl Johnson13, Margaret Murray13, Koji Takeda14, Melana Yuzefpolskaya14, Scott Silvestry15, James Kirklin10, S Craig Collum10, Clyde Yancy11Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2St. Luke's, Kansas City, MO; 3University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; 4University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittburgh, PA; 6Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 7Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL; 8Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 9University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 10University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL; 11University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 12Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 13University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; 14Columbia University, New York, NY; 15Florida Hospital, Maitland, FL

324

Impact Of Physical Function And Exercise Capacity On The Outcomes In Hospitalized Elderly Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Takeshi Kitai1, Takayuki Shimogai1, Kentaro Iwata1, Andrew Xanthopoulos2, Shuichiro Kaji1, Kentaro Kamiya3, Hiroshi Saito4, Kazuya Saito5, Emi Maekawa3, Masaaki Konishi6, Nobuyuki Kagiyama7, Yutaka Furukawa1, Yuya Matsue71Kobe CIty Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan; 2University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece; 3Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan; 4Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa, Japan; 5The Sakakibara Heart Institute of Okayama, Okayama, Japan; 6Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan; 7Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan

325

Outpatient Cost-effectiveness Study Of Hyperkalemia Management

Nihar R. Desai1, Christopher G. Rowan2, Paula J. Alvarez3, Jeanene Fogli3, Steven Coca41Yale University, New Haven, CT; 2COHRDATA, Santa Monica, CA; 3Relypsa, Inc., a Vifor Pharma Group Company, Redwood City, CA; 4Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

326

Prognostic Value Of Ventilatory Power In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Ilya Giverts1, Maria Poltavskaya2, Maria Serova1,2, Oxana Dikur2, Ekaterina Kuzmina2, Svetlana Suchkova2, Abram Syrkin21City Clinical Hospital № 1, Moscow, Russian Federation; 2First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation

327

Bariatric Surgery Improves Systolic Dysfunction In Obesity Cardiomyopathy

Safwan Gaznabi, Kathir Balakumaran, Babbaljeet Kaur, Raul Angel Garcia, Michael Zacharias, Yasir Abu-Omar, Chantal ElAmm. University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

328

Impact Of Central Sleep Apnea On The Cost Of Heart Failure Readmissions

Nihal Patel1, Kyle Porter1, Joshua Englert1, Rami Khayat21The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 2The University of California Irvine, Orange, CA

329

Inpatient Hemodialysis In Non-ESRD Heart Failure Patients: Outcomes Insights From The 2016 - 2017 National Inpatient Database

Karol Quelal, Andrea Torres, Olakanmi Olagoke, Yasmeen Golzar. John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL

330

Patient Reported Outcomes In Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy

Alfonso Siu1,2, Ivan Sierra1,2, Mingyuan Zhang1, Liz Dranow1, Jennifer Hong1,2, Jill Waldron1,2, Klasina Caballero1,2, Tom Greene1, Tibor Kovacsovics1,2, Josef Stehlik1, Jose Nativi-Nicolau1,21University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 2Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT

331

Cost-effectiveness Analysis Of Early Blood Volume-Guided Management In Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients

John E. Strobeck1, Jonathan Feldschuh2, Brent A. Williams3, Wayne L. Miller41Heart-Lung Center, Hawthorne, NJ; 2Daxor Corporation, New York, NY; 3Geisinger Health, Danville, PA; 4Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

332

The Experience Of Caring For A Patient With A Left Ventricular Assist Device: Results From A Multicenter Survey

Colleen K. McIlvennan1, Jessica Bowman2, Sandra A. Carey3, Sunit-Preet Chaudhry4, Chad Hockers5, Susan M. Joseph3, Ashwin Ravichandran4, Nasir Sulemanjee6, Sara Womack2, Joann Lindenfeld71University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; 2Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN; 3Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 4St. Vincent Medical Group, Indianapolis, IN; 5St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI; 6Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI; 7Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

333

Alleviating Chaos Utilizing A Multidisciplinary Approach To Incorporate Heart Molecular Microscope Diagnostic System® Into Practice

Staci McKean, Amit Alam, Raksha Patel, Shelley Hall. Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

334

In-hospital Functional Status Assessment (6-Clicks Score) Is Associated With Post-discharge Facility Use In Heart Failure Patients

Trejeeve Martyn, Jessica Hohman, Joshua Johnson, Jerry D. Estep, WH Wilson Tang. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

335

Decongest The Clinic---a Compulsory Experiment With Virtual Heart Failure Care In The Bronx

Marie Galvao1, Jeanne Hickey1, Sabrina R. Sicilia2, Norma Christian1, Ulrich Jorde1, Snehal Patel11Montefiore-Einstein, Bronx, NY; 2Lafayette College, Easton, PA

336

Bariatric Surgery In Advanced Heart Failure Patients As A Bridge To Advanced Therapies (b2b)

Babbaljeet Kaur, Safwan Gaznabi, Raul A. Garcia, Kathir Balakumaran, Yasir Abu-Omar, Michael Zacharias, Chantal E. Amm. Case Western Reserve University/ University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH

337

Influenza Impact On Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction And Reduced Ejection Fraction: Outcomes In The United States Between 2016 - 2017

Andrea Torres, Karol Quelal. John H Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL

338

Congestive Heart Failure Readmission And Guideline Based Therapy Rates Improvement At Safety Net Hospital Heart Health Center

Noah Silverstein1, Perry Wengrofsky2, Evan Botti2, Filip Oleszak2, Inna Bukharovich31SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY; 2SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, University Hospital of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; 3NYC Health + Hospitals, Kings County, Brooklyn, NY

339

Increasing Cardiometabolic Disease Burden Leads To Worse Outcomes In Patients With HFpEF: A TOPCAT Analysis

Margaret J. Stevenson1,2, Usman Tahir3,4, Kevin Kennedy3, Shweta R. Motiwala3,4, Jeremy M. Robbins3,4, A. Reshad Garan3,4, Marwa A. Sabe3,41Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT; 2University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT; 3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 4Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

340

Effects Of Pharmacist Interventions On HFrEf Outcomes A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis

Poukwan Arunmanakul1, Kirati Kengkla2, Thanaputt Chaiyasothi3, Arintaya Phrommintikul,1, Chidchanok Ruenkon,1, Unchalee Permsuwan1, Robert L. Page4, Mark A. Munger5, Surakit Nathisuwan6, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk51Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; 2University of Phayao, Phayao, Thailand; 3Srinakharinwirot University, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand; 4University of Colorado, Denver, CO; 5University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 6Mahidol University, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

341

Lvad Implantation And Concomitant Valvular Surgery: Analysis Of In-hospital Outcomes

Alexandros Briasoulis1, Aaqib Malik2, Chakradhari Inampudi3, Suchith Shetty1, Paulino Alvarez11University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 2Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, Westchester, NY; 3Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

342

A Method To Personalize Blood Chemistry Reference Intervals: Getting To Patient Centric Laboratory Medicine Using Electronic Medical Record Data In Chronic Heart Failure Patients

Qassem K. Abdelal, Jorge Conte, christian Lorenzo, Justin George, Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch. Florida State University, Sarasota, FL

343

Clinical Characteristics And Prognostic Predictors In Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients With Improved Or Preserved Ejection Fraction

Yiwen Yu, Changhong Zou, Younan Yao, Yuhui Huang, Qi Zhang, Yunhong Wang, Mei Zhai, Yuhui Zhang, Jian Zhang, Qiong Zhou, Yan Huang. Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

344

Severity Of Tricuspid Regurgitation On The Long-term Outcomes In Patients With Group I Pulmonary Hypertension Vs. Group Ii Pulmonary Hypertension

Arif Albulushi, Brian Lowes, Ronald Zolty. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

345

Association Between Caregiver Burden And Patient Recovery After Left Ventricular Assist Device: Insights From Sustain-it

Merrill Thomas1, John A. Spertus1, Adin-Cristian Andrei2, Tingqing Wu2, Anna Warzecha2, Kathleen L. Grady21Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute/University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; 2Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

346

Neighborhood Matters For Transitional Care And Heart Failure Hospital Readmission

Karen S. Distelhorst. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

347

30 Day Readmissions After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Parth N. Patel, Shwetha Gopal, Patrick Hilden, Nirav Mistry. Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

348

Heart Failure Related Costs And Health Care Resource Utilization Following An Emergency Department (ED) Visit For Worsening Heart Failure: A Claims Data Analysis

Matthew M. Goodwin1, Dolly Sharma2, Kathleen L. Deering2, John Mohr11scPharmaceuticals, Burlington, MA; 2Epi-Q, Oak Brook, IL

349

Cause‑Specific Mortality And Heart Failure Readmissions According To The HFA‑PEFF Algorithm In Patients Hospitalized For Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction And Volume Overload

Frederik H. Verbrugge, Yogesh N. V. Reddy, Barry A. Borlaug. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

350

Primary Palliative Care Of Adults With New Onset Heart Failure

Valerie Joy Smith1, Cheryl Westlake21Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA; 2MemorialCare, Long Beach, CA

351

Improvement In Metabolic Co-morbidities After Implantation Of Cardiomems In Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Phenotype

Amit Alam1, Navdeep Nayyar2, Jonathan Jonathan Weber2, Shelley A. Hall1, Rita Jermyn21Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center, Roslyn, NY

352

Dying With A Destination Therapy Left Ventricular Assist Device: Perspectives, Perceptions, And Experiences Of Bereaved Caregivers And Clinicians

Sarah Chuzi, Kenzie A. Cameron, Adeboye Ogunseitan, Lauren Schulze, Kathleen L. Grady, Jane E. Wilcox. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

353

The Prognosis And Predictors Of Recovered Ejection Fraction Heart Failure: A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis

Saif Altaie1, Salma S. Elkolaly2, Wissam Khalife11UTMB, galveston, TX; 2Menoufia University, Shebin Elkom, Menoufia, Egypt

354

Racial Disparities In Outcomes After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation:

Alexandros Briasoulis1, Chakradhari Inampudi2, Suchith Shetty1, Aaqib Malik31University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; 3Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, Westchester, NY

An Analysis Of National Inpatient Sample

355

Cardiovascular Disease Burden Prior To Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis Diagnosis

Montserrat V. Llonch1, José T. Ortiz-Pérez2, Sheila R. Reddy3, Eunice Chang3, Marian H. Tarbox3, Michael R. Pollock1, Jose Nativi-Nicolau4, Nowell M. Fine51Akcea Therapeutics, Boston, MA; 2Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona., Barcelona, Spain; 3PHAR, LLC, Beverly Hills, CA; 4University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 5University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

356

Impact Of Atrial Fibrillation On In-hospital Outcomes Of Patients With Decompensated Heart Failure: Analysis Of The Nis Database

Jennifer Maning1, Bertrand Ebner1, Jelani Grant1, Louis Vincent1, Odunayo Olorunfemi1, Neal Olarte1, Edgar Acuna1, Sunita Mahabir1, Rosario Colombo1, Sandra Chaparro21Jackson Memorial Hospital - University of Miami, Miami, FL; 2Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute at Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL

358

Patients’ Journey’s In Living With Heart Failure - Its A Bumpy Road

Nancy M. Albert1, Paul A. Heidenreich2, Barbara Fletcher3, Kismet D. Rasmusson4, James F. Bena1, Cheri Lattimer5, Shannon L. Morrison1, Anekwe E. Onwuanyi6, Donnette Smith71Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Cleveland Clinic, VA Palo Alto/Stanford Univ.; Palo Alto, CA; 3Univ. North Florida, Jacksonville, FL; 4Intermountain Med Ctr., Salt Lake City, UT; 5Case Management Society of America, Little Rock, AR; 6Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; 7Mended Hearts, Dallas, TX

359

Roadblocks For Patients With Heart Failure Navigating Clinicaltrials.gov

Zackary D. Goff1, R. Eric Heidel2, Kelsey Grabeel2, Paul J. Hauptman21Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; 2University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN

360

Right Heart Catheterization/Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Use In Cardiogenic Shock: A Friend Or A Foe? Insights From The Nationwide Readmissions Database

Sagar Ranka, Ioannis Mastoris, Tarun Dalia, Nikhil Parimi, Prakash Acharya, Siva Taduru, Kamal Gupta, Zubair Shah. University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

362

Guideline-Directed Therapy In An Elderly Homebound Population Of Heart Failure Patients

Cloie June L. Chiong1,2, Alan B. Miller31University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; 2MedEx Health Network, Inc, Redlands, CA; 3University of Florida- Shands Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL

363

Shared Decision Making In Cardiology Practice: 15 Month Results Of A Multi-Site Study Of Decision Aid Implementation

J.S. Blumenthal-Barby1, Kristin Kostick1, Meredith Trejo1, Arvind Bhimaraj2, Andrew Civitello3, Douglas A. Horstmanshof4, Ulrich P. Jorde5, Matthias Loebe6, Mandeep R. Mehra7, Vinay Thohan8, Barry H. Trachtenberg2, Nir Uriel9, Bob J. Volk10, Jerry D. Estep111Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 3Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX; 4INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK; 5Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; 6Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL; 7Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 8Mission Health, Asheville, NC; 9New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; 10MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; 11Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

364

Predictive Preoperative Characteristics For Right Ventricular Failure After Left Ventricle Assist Device Placement

Kathir Balakumaran, Raul Angel Garcia, Tracy Schwab, Safwan Gaznabi, Jennifer T. Dahm, Shu Lan Peng, Babaljeet Kaur, Michael D. Zacharias, Yasir Abu Omar, Chantal El Amm. University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

365

Shared Care Site To A Destination Therapy (dt) Left Ventricular Assist Device (lvad) Implant Site; A Novel Strategy To Start A Dt Lvad Program.

Yamama Hafeez1, Paul Burns1, Yoshi Toyoda2, Mark Moshiaykhov1, Kulpreet Barn1, Joann Chichatti1, Abroo Muzafar1, Donal Haas3, Kevin Haagan31DHLC, Browns Mills, NJ; 2TUHS, Philadelphia, PA; 3Abbington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PA

366

Impact Of A Pharmacist-Led Heart Failure Clinic On Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy

Dana Attar, Jona Lekura, James S. Kalus, Waleed Al-Darzi, Celeste T. Williams, Gillian F. Grafton, Long To. Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI

367

Guideline-directed Medical Therapy May Not Be Harmful In Patients With Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis And Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Charlene L. Rohm, Brian Howard, Baqir Lakhani, April Britt, Jordan Wilkie, David Snipelisky. Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center, Marietta, GA

368

Effect Of Body Mass Index On Mortality In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Receiving Sacubitril/ Valsartan

Kazuhiko Kido1, Christopher Bianco2, Marco Caccamo2, George Sokos21West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; 2West Virginia University Medicine, Morgantown, WV

369

Impact Of Social Determents On Heart Failure Readmission At York Hospital

Kunal Mehta, Sharon L. Scott, Alexandra E. Moody, Sherry L. Soenen, Adnan S. Malik. York Hospital, York, PA

371

The Influence Of Age And Gender On Outcomes And Healthcare Cost Among Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Systolic Heart Failure

Lauren Cooper, Mitchell A. Psotka, Shashank S. Sinha, Robert T. Cole, Abdulla Damluji. Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA

372

Protocol To Prevent 30 Day Readmission In Patients Who Receive A Heartmate LVAD With Pre Op Intermacs Profile 1 - 3

Amit Alam1, John De Pietro2, Rita Jermyn21Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center, Roslyn, NY

373

Patient Satisfaction Remains High From 3 - 6 Months After Lvad Implant: Findings From Mcs A-qol

Kathleen L. Grady1, Katy Wortman1, Peter Cummings1, Sarah Buono1, Joann Lindenfeld2, Jeffrey Teuteberg3, Jonathan Rich1, David Cella1, Clyde Yancy1, Doc Pham1, Colleen McILvennan4, Larry A. Allen4, Michael Kiernan5, David Beiser6, Catherine Murks6, Christopher Lee7, Quinn Denfeld8, Liviu Klein9, Carrie Eshelbrenner10, James Long10, Mary Walsh11, Josef Stehlik12, Eric Adler13, Bernice Ruo13, Michael Kallen1, Elizabeth A Hahn11Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; 3Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 4University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; 5Tufts University, Boston, MA; 6University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 7Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; 8Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR; 9University of California, San Francisco, CA; 10Integris, Oklahoma City, OK; 11St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN; 12University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 13University of California, San Diego, CA

374

Best Practices In Amyloidosis Programs: A Survey Of Cardiologists, Nurses, Patients, And Patient Advocates

Jose Nativi-Nicolau1, Nitasha Sarswat2, Johana Fajardo3, Muriel Finkel4, Younos Abdulsattar5, Adam Castaño5, Lori Klein6, Alexandra Haddad51Utah Amyloidosis Program, Salt Lake City, UT; 2Univ of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL; 3Med Univ of South Carolina Heart and Vascular Ctr, Charleston, SC; 4Amyloidosis Support Groups, Wood Dale, IL; 5Pfizer, NY, NY; 6Bench Wing, Greenwich, CT

375

CardioMEMS Device Implantation Reduces Repeat Hospitalizations In A Veterans Affairs Patient Population: A Single Center Experience

Gregory Milligan1, Nishi Patel1, Amit Alam1, Joshua Coney1, Ahmed Seliem1, Ishita Tejani2, Daniel Cheeran2, Subhash Banerjee2, Shelley Hall1, Nicole Minniefield2, Susan Joseph11Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2VA North Texas Health Care System - Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX

376

Mid And Later Life Reproductive Factors Are Not Associated With Physical Frailty Among Women With Heart Failure

Mary Christine Roberts Davis1, Shirin O. Hiatt1, Nandita Gupta1, Albert Camacho1, Kerri Winters-Stone1, Christopher S. Lee2, Quin E. Denfeld11Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR; 2Boston College, Boston, MA

377

Heart Failure Optimize Clinic: Improving Quality Of Care In Heart Failure Patients In An Academic Medical Center

Theresa Diederich1, Scott Lundgren2, Bunny Pozehl2, Kelly Ferguson1, Kyana Holder1, Stephanie Bowman Bowman1, Adam Burdorf2, Brian Lowes1, Ronald Zolty1, Douglas Stoller1, Marshall Hyden11Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE; 2University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

378

Factors Associated With Perceived Need For Palliative Care Among Patients With Heart Failure

Brett Curtis1, Bruce L. Rollman1, Bea Herbeck Belnap1, Kwonho Jeong1, Lan Yu1, Matthew Harinstein1, Dio Kavalieratos21University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Emory University, Atlanta, GA

380

Recent Temporal Trends In Hospital Costs For Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

Jonathan S. Na1, Michael Sokolow2, James Childress1, Paul Han1, Jeffrey Rottman11University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; 2University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD

381

Impact Of Tafamidis On Life Expectancy And Quality Of Life Of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Patients

Diana Tran1, Benjamin Li2, Bart Heeg3, Rahul Bambri2, Michelle Stewart2, Daniel Grima1, Mark Rozenbaum41Eversana, Burlington, ON, Canada; 2Pfizer, New York, NY; 3Ingress-Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 4Pfizer, Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands

382

Development Of A Practical Heart Failure Readmission Risk Assessment Tool

Derick F. Gabel1, Amber M. Watts1, Janna C. Beavers1, Stuart D. Russell2, Wesley D. Rich31WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, NC; 2Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; 3Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Buies Creek, NC

383

A Dedicated Guideline Directed Medical Therapy Clinic Improves Quality Of Care And Outcomes In Patients With Heart Failure And Reduced Ejection Fraction

John Glenn Tiu1, Kathir Balakumaran2, Marybeth Barry1, Kerry Cipriani1, Laura Kearney1, Justice Oranefo1, Min Jung Kim1, Sara Tabtabai11University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT; 2University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

384

Beta Blockers For HFrEF: Are Guidelines Being Followed?

Christabel E. Nyange, Neha Gupta, Rebecca Mazurkiewicz, Akshai Bhandary. Northwell Health Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY

385

Does Racial Difference Augment The Obesity Paradox In HFpEF Patients? An Insight From The National Inpatient Sample

Fredrick Machi Ogugua, Abdulrahman Gamam, Jorje Reyes. Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN

386

Timing Of CardioMEMS PA Sensor Implantation Is Crucial In Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

Andrew Cheng1, Daniel Ng1, Christopher Vanichsarn1, Samantha Bagsic2, James T. Heywood1, Raj Mohan1, Ajay Srivastava11Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA; 2Scripps Hub Academic Research Core, San Diego, CA

387

Clinical Characteristics And Outcomes Of Methamphetamine Associated Cardiomyopathy Patients Presenting With Cardiogenic Shock

Shuktika Nandkeolyar, Tanya Doctorian, Antoine Sakr. Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

388

Improvement In Post Discharge Appointment Scheduling For Patients With Heart Failure Using A Designated Scheduler

Rahul Singh, Andrea Creamer, Dora D. Jesus, Miguel Chavez, Michael Pudlo, Susan Bionat, Robert Casey, Nora Dumlao, Benjamin Salgado, Robert Saldana, Aravind Bhimaraj. Houston Methodist, Houston, TX

389

Risk Score For Rehospitalization Among Home Health Care Patients With Heart Failure

Youjeong Kang1, Greg Stoddard1, Bnjamin Horne2,31University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 2Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT; 3Stanford University, Standford, CA

390

Outcomes Of Septuagenarian And Octogenarian Females Hospitalized For Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Temitope Ajibawo1, Oluwatimilehin Okunowo21Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY; 2Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

 

Surgery/Transplantation/Devices

391

Short And Long Term Mortality In Patients With Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement

Raul Angel Garcia, Kathir Balakumaran, Tracy Schwab, Safwan Gaznabi, Jenna Dahm, Shu L. Peng, Babbaljeet Kaur, Michael Zacharias, Yasir Abu Omar, Chantal El Amm. Case Western Reserve University - University Hospital Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

392

Late Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: Characteristics, Predictors, And Outcomes

Fatimah A. Alkhunaizi1, Arune Gulati1, Rahat Muslem2, Ryan J. Tedford3, Chun W. Choi1, Ahmet Kilic1, Roberta Florido1, Nisha Gilotra1, Kavita Sharma1, Steven Hsu11Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; 2Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 3Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

393

A Novel Risk Scoring System For Predicting Primary Graft Dysfunction After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Syed Adeel Ahsan, Jasjit Bhinder, Syed Zaid, Parija Sharedalal, Chhaya Aggarwal-Gupta, Avi Levine, Stephen Pan, Alan Gass, Gregg M. Lanier. Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY

394

Intravenous Iron Or Red Blood Cell Supplementation And Risk Of Serious Infection In Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients.

Hasan K. Siddiqi1, Jefferson Vieira1, Michael Pfeffer2, Lara Coakley1, Garrick C. Stewart1, Hari R. Mallidi1, Michael M. Givertz1, Mandeep R. Mehra11Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

395

Long-term Cardiac Remodeling And Outcomes After LVAD Discontinuation For Myocardial Recovery With Device Left In-Situ

Eleanor F. Gerhard1, Lu Wang2, Ramesh Singh1, Stephan Schueler2, Leonard Genovese1, Guy MacGowan2, Palak Shah11Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 2Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

396

Comparison Of Clinical Outcomes Of Intraortic Balloon Pump Versus Impella In Patients With Cardiogenic Shock: A Real-World Analysis

Sagar Ranka, Nikhil Parimi, Tarun Dalia, Prakash Acharya, Siva Taduru, Kamal Gupta, Zubair Shah. University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

397

Journey Of The Right Heart Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Joseph A. Kirollos1, Rebecca Harap1, Tingqing Wu1,2, Ike S. Okwuosa1,2, Jane E. Wilcox1,2, Esther E. Vorovich1,2, Kambiz Ghafourian1,2, Anjan Tibrewala1, Faraz Ahmad1, Amit Pawale1, Duc T. Pham1, Jonathan D. Rich11Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 2Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL

398

Donor Quality By UNOS Status After The 2018 Cardiac Transplantation Allocation System Change

Jessica Schultz1, Maria Masotti1, Sue Duval1, Ranjit John1, Tamas Alexy1, Cindy M. Martin1, Peter Eckman2, Andrew Shaffer1, Rebecca Cogswell11University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 2Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN

399

Similar Long-term Survival In Men And Women Despite Lower Risk Profile In Women In The Contemporary Heart Transplantation Era

William L. Baker1, Douglas L. Jennings2, Joseph Radojevic3, Jason Gluck3, Sabeena Arora3, Ayyaz Ali3, Abhishek Jaiswal31University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT; 2Long Island University, New York, NY; 3Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

400

Contemporary Use Of Veno-arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Insights From The Multicenter Rescue Registry

Rahul S. Loungani1, Marat Fudim1, Dave Ranney1, Ajar Kochar2, Marc Samsky1, Desiree Bonadonna1, Akinobu Itoh3, Hiroo Takayama4, Koji Takeda5, Daniel Wojdyla1, Adam DeVore1, Mani Daneshmand61Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC; 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; 4Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY; 5Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; 6Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA

401

Right Ventricular Arterial Elastance Is Associated With Prognostic Value In One Year Mortality Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement

Michelle M. Moore Padilla1, Mohamed Derbala1, Salil Kumar2, Joel Ferrall3, Aaron Guo4, Matthew Cefalau5, Daniel Sims6, Sakima Smith11The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 2Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 3The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 4Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; 5The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH; 6Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY

402

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Metrics Demonstrate That CF-LVAD Patients Suffer From Residual Heart Failure

Maeveen Riordan, Ashley Pratt-Cordova, Jami Bennett, Jessica Byrd, Wendy Kohrt, Jay D. Pal, William K. Cornwell III. University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

403

Hypotensive Response On Cardiopulmonary Stress Test Is Associated With Increased One Year Mortality After Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Valmiki Maharaj, Arianne Agdamag, Jonathan Edmiston, Victoria Charpentier, Jessica Schultz, Ranjit John, Andrew Shaffer, Sue Duval, Cindy M. Martin, Gary S. Francis, Rebecca Cogswell, Tamas Alexy. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

405

Impact Of Tricuspid Valve Repair At The Time Of Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation On In-hospital Mortality And Outcomes: Insight From The NIS Database

Jennifer Maning1, Bertrand Ebner1, Jelani Grant1, Louis Vincent1, Neal Olarte1, Odunayo Olorunfemi1, Sunita Mahabir1, Edgar Acuna1, Sandra Chaparro2, Rosario Colombo11Jackson Memorial Hospital - University of Miami, Miami, FL; 2Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute at Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL

406

Trends In The Use Of Cardiac Assist Devices In Heart Failure Patients With Cardiogenic Shock

Ahmad Naeem Lone, Muhammad Zia Khan, Muhammad Khan, Safi Khan, Sudarshan Balla. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

407

Winter Season And Clinical Outcomes Following LVAD Implantation

Teruhiko Imamura1, Pamela Combs2, Umar Siddiqi2, William Cohen2, Stephanie Besser2, Colleen LaBuhn2, Valluvan Jeevanandam21University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; 2University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

408

Trends In Triple-organ Transplantation

Umar A. Siddiqi, Pamela Combs, Talia Baker, Gene Kim, Yolanda Becker, Valluvan Jeevanandam. University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

409

Impact Of Left Ventricular Assist Device On Pulmonary Functions And Pulmonary Hemodynamics: A Meta-analysis

Waqas Ullah, Casey Meizinger, Sohaib Roomi, Rehan Saeed, Margot Boigon, Donald Haas, Eduardo Rame. Abington Jefferson Health, Abington, PA

410

Use Of LVAD In Left Ventricular Non-Compaction

Donald D. Chang1, Mona Bansal2, Yvonne Gilliland2, Aditya Bansal21The University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, LA; 2Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA

411

Persistence Of Malnutrition During Mechanical Circulatory Support Remains Associated With Mortality

Sakthi Sundararajan, David Soma, David Ishizawar, David Joyce, Nicole Lohr, Ankur Segon, Nunzio Gaglianello. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

412

Longterm Survival On LVAD Support: Limitations Driven By Development Of Device Complications And End-Organ Dysfunction

Imad M. Hariri1, Todd Dardas2, Manreet Kanwar3, Rebecca Cogswell4, Igor Gosev5, Ezequiel Molina6, Susan L. Myers7, James K. Kirklin7, Palak Shah8, Francis D. Pagani9, Jennifer A. Cowger11Henry Ford Hospitals, Detroit, MI; 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA; 3Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; 4University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 5University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; 6MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute/MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; 7University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; 8Inova Heart and Vascular, Fairfax, VA; 9University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI

413

Hemodynamic Reserve Predicts Early Right Heart Failure After LVAD Implantation

Jacob M. Read1, Nnamdi Azih1, Mat Gregoski1, Nicole A. Pilch1, D. Allison Milling1, Steven Hsu2, Rebecca Cogswell3, Michael C. Viray1, Eric L. Bonno1, Michael L. Craig1, Gregory P. Jackson1, Brian A. Houston1, Ryan J. Tedford11Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; 2John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

414

Impact Of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy On Medical Therapy Of LVAD Patients

Eric I. Jeng, Mohammad Al-Ani, Abdelrahman Elsayed, George Arnaoutakis, Juan Vilaro, Juan Aranda, Alex Parker, Yu Wu, Melissa R. Murray, Jeffrey Friedman, Mustafa M. Ahmed. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

416

Women Have More Early Right Heart Failure But No Increase In Later Right Heart Failure After LVAD Implantation: An INTERMACS Analysis

Nirupama S. Vellanki, Kevin Kennedy, E Wilson Grandin, A Reshad Garan, Shweta R. Motiwala, Pablo Quintero, Jordan B. Strom, Loryn Feinberg, Lisa Fleming, Marwa A. Sabe. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

418

A Study Of Characteristics, Waitlist Mortality And Successful Heart Transplantation By Race In Contemporary Era

Naga Vaishnavi Gadela1, William Baker2, Ayesha Azmeen1, Jason Gluck2, Joseph Radojevic2, Sabeena Arora2, Jonathan Hammond2, Ayyaz Ali2, Douglas Jennings2, Abhishek Jaiswal21University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT; 2Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, CT

419

Increasing Pretransplant Panel Reactive Antibodies Worsens Survival In A Contemporary Heart Transplantation Cohort

William L. Baker1, Douglas L. Jennings2, Naga V. Gadela3, Ayesha Azmeen3, Joseph Radojevic3, Jason Gluck3, Sabeena Arora3, Jonathan Hammond3, Ayyaz Ali3, Abhishek Jaiswal31University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT; 2Long Island University, New York, NY; 3Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

420

Unsupervised Machine Learning Of LGE Patterns On Cardiac MRI Identifies Patients At Risk For Right Ventricular Failure After LVAD

Julia M. Simkowski1, Ramsey M. Wehbe1, Jack Goergen1, Allen S. Anderson2, Kambiz Ghafourian1, Ike Okwuosa1, Esther E. Vorovich1, Faraz S. Ahmad1, Anjan Tibrewala1, Duc T. Pham1, Jane E. Wilcox1, Jonathan D. Rich11Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2The University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

421

Sex Differences In Left Ventricular Assist Device-related Emergency Department Visits In The United States

Nosheen Reza1, Jonathan J. Edwards2, Hannah Katcoff2, Antara Mondal2, Heather Griffis2, Joseph W. Rossano2, Kimberly Y. Lin2, Anjali T. Owens1, Edo Y. Birati1, Jonathan B. Edelson21Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

422

Comparison Of Psychosocial Barriers To Advanced Heart Failure Therapies In Rural And Urban Patients

Whittney Wiley1, Sushmitha Divakar2, Philip Wilson2, Sarah Andrus3, Caitlin McGinnis4, JoAnn Lindenfeld4, Mark Wigger4, Lynne Stevenson4, Jonathan Menachem4, Douglas M. Brinkley4, Suzanne B. Sacks4, Henry Ooi4, Daniel Daunis4, Kelly Schlendorf4, Sandip Zalawadiya4, Lynn Punnoose41Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA; 2Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN; 3Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, IN; 4Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

423

Mitral Regurgitation Severity After Continuous-Flow LVAD Implantation Was Not Associated With Adverse Long-Term Clinical Outcomes

Varinder K. Randhawa1, Weiqin Lin2, Marwa A. Sabe3, Jennifer A. Bullen1, Edward G. Soltesz1, WH Wilson Tang1, Emer Joyce4, Jerry D. Estep1, Deborah Kwon11Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; 2National University Heart Center, Singapore, Singapore; 3Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 4Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

424

Hypotensive Response On Cardiopulmonary Stress Test Predicts Elevated Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure And Reduced Cardiac Output In Patients Undergoing Evaluation For Left Ventricular Assist Device

Valmiki Maharaj, Arianne Agdamag, Jonathan Edmiston, Victoria Charpentier, Jessica Schultz, Ranjit John, Andrew Shaffer, Sue Duval, Cindy M. Martin, Gary S. Francis, Rebecca Cogswell, Tamas Alexy. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

425

Pre-operative Pulmonary Function And Association With Left Ventricular Assist Devices Outcomes

Anuj K. Chokshi1, Kambiz Ghafourian1, Hector E. Cajigas2, Rebecca Harap1, Tingqing Wu1, Faraz S. Ahmad1, Ike S. Okwuosa1, Anjan Tibrewala1, Esther Vorovich1, Jane Wilcox1, Amit Pawale1, Duc Thinh Pham1, Jonathan D. Rich11Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

426

Multisensor Remote Monitoring For Heart Failure Exacerbations In Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices

Alexander G. Hajduczok, Carly Maucione, Katharine Julian, Omaima Ali, Howard J. Eisen, John P. Boehmer. Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

427

Incidence,Characteristics And Outcomes Of Cardiac Tamponade In Patients On Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation For The Treatment Of Refractory Cardiogenic Shock

Shehab AlAnsari1, Gauranga Mahalwar1, Muhammad Furqan1, David Warner2, WaiYan Soe1, Allan Klein1, Michael Tong1, WH Wilson Tang11Cleveland Clinic, CLEVELAND, OH; 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

428

A Clinical Prediction Model For Normalization Of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Gaurav Gulati, Robin Ruthazer, David Kent, Michael Kiernan. Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

429

Impact Of The 2018 Donor Heart Allocation System On Post Transplant Morbidity And Mortality

Lily K. Stern, Angela Velleca, Keith Nishihara, Adriana Shen, Michael Zaliznyak, Jignesh Patel, Danny Ramzy, Fardad Esmailian, Jon A. Kobashigawa, Michelle M. Kittleson. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

430

A Novel Risk Score Predicts Early Right Ventricular Failure After Lvad: A Derivation-validation Multicenter Study

Naila Ijaz1, Iosif Taleb2, Christos P. Kyriakopoulos2, Zachary Demetrzis3, Adithya Peruri3, Tyler J. Richins2, Liz Dranow2, Daniel Tang1, Hassan Nemeh3, Josef Stehlik2, Antigone G. Koliopoulou2, Craig H. Selzman2, Rami Alharethi2, Jennifer Cowger3, Palak Shah1, Stavros G. Drakos21Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 2U.T.A.H. Cardiac Transplant Program, Salt Lake City, UT; 3Henry Ford Medical Center, Detroit, MI

431

Poor Functional Status Prior To Bridge-to-transplant Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Is Not Associated With Reduced Survival In Heart Transplant Recipients: Analysis Of The United Network For Organ Sharing (UNOS) Registry

Veraprapas Kittipibul1, Vanessa Blumer2, Gabriel A. Hernandez3, Sandra Chaparro4, Randall C. Starling51University of Miami, MIAMI, FL; 2Duke University Medical Center, DURHAM, NC; 3University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 4Baptist Health South Florida, MIAMI, FL; 5Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

432

Clinical Outcomes After Weaning From Venoarterial-Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Single Center Review

Neha V. Chandra, Jeffrey Hsu, Hilary Shapiro, Gabriel Vorobiof, Vadim Gudzenko, Sumit Singh, Peyman Benharash, Reza Ardehali. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

434

Differential Short-term Survival In Patients Bridged With Biventricular Devices Versus Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation In The Contemporary Era Of Heart Transplantation

William Baker1, Naga Vaishnavi Gadela2, Ayesha Azmeen2, Jason Gluck1, Joseph Radojevic1, Sabeena Arora1, Jonathan Hammond1, Ayyaz Ali1, Douglas Jennings1, Abhishek Jaiswal11Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, CT; 2University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT

435

Waitlist Mortality And Transplantation In Patients Bridged With Biventricular Devices And Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation In The Contemporary Era Of Heart Transplantation.

Abhishek Jaiswal1, Naga Vaishnavi Gadela2, Ayesha Azmeen2, Jason Gluck1, Joseph Radojevic1, Sabeena Arora1, Jonathan Hammond1, Ayyaz Ali1, Douglas Jennings1, William Baker11Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, CT; 2University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT

436

Outcomes Of Restrictive Cardiomyopathy Following LVAD Placement: An IMACS Analysis

Chris Chaudhary, Michael Yaoyao Yin, Elizabeth Dranow, Stavros G. Drakos, Josef Stehlik, Edward M. Gilbert, Kevin S. Shah, Line Kemeyou, Omar Wever-Pinzon, Stephen H. McKellar, Craig H. Selzman, James C. Fang, Jose Nativi-Nicolau. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

437

A Hybrid Heart Failure VAD Coordinator Model Decreases Burnout And Improves Work Quality Of Life

Lauren E. Meece, Sara Kolp, Mustafa M. Ahmed. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

438

Survival After Heart Transplantation In Patients With Adriamycin Associated Cardiomyopathy - An Updated UNOS Analysis

Bhavadharini Ramu1, Maria Masotti2, Rebecca Cogswell21Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

439

Initiation Of Sacubitril Valsartan In An Inotrope Dependent Patient

Hua Ling1, Ugochukwu Egolum21Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Suwanee, GA; 2The Heart Center of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA

440

The Need For Speed: A “Maverick” Approach Towards Optimizing Lvad Pump Speed By Focusing On Pressure-flow Relationships

Venkata Satish Pendela1, Medhat chowdhury1, V. Parikh2, S. Khodjaev2, P. Oates2, KL Schickling2, K. Wojciechowski2, A. Dvorak2, P. Kudaravalli3, S. Park1, D. J. Prastein1, Scott Feitell21Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY; 3SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

441

Right Atrial Strain By Echocardiography Is Associated With Survival After LVAD

Jack A. Goergen, Ramsey M. Wehbe, Julia M. Simkowski, Allen S. Anderson, Kambiz Ghafourian, Ike Okwuosa, Esther E. Vorovich, Faraz S. Ahmad, Anjan Tibrewala, Jane E. Wilcox, Duc T. Pham, Jonathan D. Rich. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

443

Dialysis After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Annie Tsay, Lori Ober, Behzad Soleimani, Robert Dowling, Jordan Shouey, Omaima Ali, Thomas Scanlon, Robert Oblender, Howard Joel Eisen. Penn State/Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

444

Predictors Are Lacking For Change In Kidney Function After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Nicholas Wettersten1, Michelle Estrella2, Michela Brambatti1, Yu Horiuchi1, Eric Adler1, Victor Pretorius1, Patrick T. Murray3, Michael Shlipak4, Joachim Ix11University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; 2San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA; 3University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 4San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Franciscio, CA

445

Use Of Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin As A Renal Sparing Strategy: Outcomes From A Single Center

Jasjit Bhinder, Syed Adeel Ahsan, Syed Zaid, Parija Sharedalal, Chhaya Aggarwal-Gupta, Avi Levine, Stephen Pan, Alan Gass, Gregg M. Lanier. Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY

446

Left Ventricular Assist Devices In Patients With Transposition Of The Great Arteries: Survival And Adverse Events

Shaundeep Sekhon, Eriberto Michel, Tingqing Wu, Rebecca Harap, Faraz S. Ahmad, Kambiz Ghafourian, Michael Monge, Amit Pawale, Duc T. Pham, Anjan Tibrewala, Jonathan D. Rich, Esther Vorovich, Jane Wilcox, Quentin R. Youmans, Clyde W. Yancy, Ike S. Okwuosa. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

447

Pulmonary Hypertension And Its Association With Cardiac Transplant Outcomes: Does PA Systolic Matter?

Alana D. Bryant1, Tingqing Wu2, Rebecca Harap2, Precious Akanyirige2, Ashley Ezema2, Kambiz Ghafourian2, Kamari Jackson2, Edwin Mandieka2, Ramael Ohiomoba2, Amit Pawale2, Duc T. Pham2, Quentin R. Youmans2, Ike S. Okwuosa21Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

448

Contemporary Trends And Predictors Of Utilization Of Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Devices In ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated By Cardiogenic Shock

Muhammad Z. khan, muhammmad khan, muhammmad Munir, Sudarshan Balla. west virginia, Morgantown, WV

450

Outcomes With Impella In Cardiogenic Shock

Franck Herve Azobou Tonleu, Melissa Lyle, Dustin Staloch, Lakshmi Sridharan, Kunal Bhatt, Alanna Morris, Michael Burke, Andrew Smith, Tamer Attia, John D. Vega, Mani Daneshmand, Wissam Jaber, Sonjoy Laskar. Emory University, Atlanta, GA

451

An Assessment Of Patient Selection For Impella Device Implantation In Cardiogenic Shock

Kaushik Amancherla, Gina Lazzara, Kelly Schlendorf, Jared O'Leary, Sandip Zalawadiya, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Jonathan N. Menachem. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

453

Impact Of Remote Pulmonary Artery Hemodynamic Monitoring System In Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions Among Patients With Heart Failure And Atrial Fibrillation

Smitha Narayana Gowda1, Jon Orvarsson1, Mason Blue1, Roman Pham1, Aditya Singh1, Ammar Abdullah1, Rakshya Sharma2, Mansi Oberoi1, Adam Stys1, Tom Stys1, Marian Petrasko1, Naveen Rajpurohit1, Valerie Bares1, Orvar Jonsson11University of South Daktoa, Sioux Falls, SD; 2University of South Daktoa, Sioux falls, SD

454

Left Ventricular Assist Device Outcomes In Non English Speaking Patients

Abdelghani El Rafei, Jessica Schultz, Rebecca Cogswell. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

455

Walking The Tightrope: A Center's Experience With Simultaneous Heart-liver-kidney Transplantation

Umar A. Siddiqi, Pamela S. Combs, Gene Kim, Talia Baker, Yolanda Becker, Valluvan Jeevanandam. University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

456

HLA Matching In Cardiac Transplantation - Impact On Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy, Rejection And Donor Specific Antibodies

Luise Holzhauser, Maneesh Misra, Tamari Miller, Sara Kalantari, Bryan Smith, Ann Nguyen, Bow Chung, Nitasha Sarswat, Gene Kim, Susana Marino, Jonathan Grinstein. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

457

Effect Of Defibrillation On The Performance Of An Implantable Vagus Nerve Stimulation System

Imad Libbus, Mary Faltaous, Lorenzo DiCarlo. LivaNova, Houston, TX

458

Association Of Echocardiographic Parameters And Outcomes In Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Who Have An Implantable Remote Pulmonary Artery Hemodynamic Monitoring System

Smitha Narayana Gowda1, Ammar Abdullah1, Rakshya Sharma2, Mansi Oberoi1, Max DeHaan1, Roman Pham1, Jon Orvarsson1, Mason Blue1, Adam Stys1, Tom Stys1, Marian Petrasko1, Naveen Rajpurohit1, Orvar Jonsson11University of South Daktoa, Sioux Falls, SD; 2University of South Daktoa, Sioux falls, SD

459

Coronary Artery Vasospasm: A Under-recognized Phenomenon In Orthotopic Heart Transplant

Luis Hernandez, Hardik Bhansali, Nader Hanna, Kevin Leung, Nicholas Ghiloni, Diana Miranda Ruiz, Jose Sleiman, Eduardo Perez, Monica Segura, Cedric Sheffield, Jose Navia, Nicolas Brozzi, Robert Cubeddu, Mauricio Velez, Viviana Navas, Stephen Leslie Tobias, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort. Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL

460

Impact Of Therapy With Anti-Thymocyte Globulin In Heart Transplant Recipients On Acute Cellular Rejection And Readmission For Infection - A Single Center Retrospective Study

Parija H. Sharedalal, Jasjit Bhinder, Syed Ahsan, Syed Zaid, Stephen Pan, Avi Levine, Chhaya Aggarwal-Gupta, Alan Gass, Gregg M. Lanier. Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY

461

Potential Use Of Non-invasive Remote Monitoring Of Electronically-measured S3 Heart Sounds For Heart Failure Management

Alexander G. Hajduczok, John P. Boehmer. Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

462

Transcaval TAVR On A LVAD Patient Presenting With Cardiogenic Shock

Angelos Karagiannis1, Melissa Lyle1, Melroy DSouza1, Bishoy Hanna2, Stephanie Wang1, Annie Ho1, Kunal Bhatt1, Adam Greenbaum1, Vasilis Babaliaros1, Divya Gupta11Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; 2Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

463

A Destination To Nowhere? Re-evaluating Candidacy For Mechanical Circulatory Support After Initial Rejection

Venkata Satish Pendela1, V. Parikh2, S. Khodjaev2, K. L. Schickling2, P. Oates2, K. Wojciechowski2, A. Dvorak2, S. Feitell21Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY; 2Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY

464

Renal Outcomes Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement: A Single Center Experience

Ozan Unlu, Hector Sepulveda Alemany, Maria Pabon, Irina Sobol, Udhay Krishnan, Parag Goyal, Evelyn M. Horn, Farhan Raza, Maria G. Karas. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

465

Advanced Heart Failure In Adolescents: A Challenge For A Newly Established Program In The Middle East

Iman M. Hamour, Guirgis Gabra, Medhat Soliman, Richard Ferrer, Gurjyot Bajwa, Hussam Ghalib, Feras Bader. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

466

From Hip To Heart: Cobalt-induced Cardiomyopathy Requiring Cardiac Transplantation

Manavotam Singh1, Amre Ghazzal2, Mrinalini Krishnan1, Ajay Kadakkal1, Mark Hofmeyer1, Phillip H. Lam1, Maria E. Rodrigo1, Hiroto Kitahara1, Marc K. Halushka3, Ezequiel J. Molina1, Samer S. Najjar1, Farooq H. Sheikh11MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute; MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; 2MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; 3Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

467

Mitra-clip In Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy A Case Series

Sarah Cuddy, Sharmila Dorbala, Rodney Falk. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

468

Existing Non-cardiac Comorbidities Negatively Impact Quality Of Life Gains After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant.

Dhrusti Patel, Anita A. Kelkar. Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC

 

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469

Sleeve Gastrectomy In Obese Patients With Vads: Readmissions, Metabolic, Functional, And Echocardiographic Parameters

Adrian daSilva-deAbreu1,2,3, Kiran Garikapati1, Bader Aldeen Alhafez4, Sapna Desai1,2, Clement Eiswirth1,2, Selim Krim1,2, Hamang Patel1,2, Hector O. Ventura1,2, Carl J. Lavie1,2, Juan F. Loro-Ferrer3, Stacy A. Mandras1,21The John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA; 2The UQ Ochsner Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland., New Orleans, LA; 3Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 4The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

470

Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Considerations

Sanjana Bhatia-Patel, Carly Fabrizio, Fanjo Siric, Sourin Banerji. Christiana Care Health System, Bear, DE

471

Congestive Heart Failure Exacerbation Due To Flow Regurgitation Through A Perivalvular Abscess

Adam Combiths1, Arunima Misra1,2, Vijay Nambi1,21Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

472

A Machine Learning Approach To Early Identification Of Acute Coronary Syndrome

Saarang Panchavati, Anurag Garikipati, Emily Pellegrini, Anna Lynn-Palevsky, Gina Barnes, Jana Hoffman, Jacob Calvert, Ritankar Das. Dascena, Inc., San Francisco, CA

474

Efficacy And Safety Of Mavacamten In Adults With Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results Of The EXPLORER-HCM Study

Iacopo Olivotto1, Artur Oreziak2, Roberto Barriales-Villa3, Theodore P. Abraham4, Ahmad Masri5, Liang Fang6, Wanying Li6, Mondira Bhattacharya6, Jay M. Edelberg6, Amy J. Sehnert6, Cynthia Burstein Waldman7, Steven J. Lester8, Andrew Wang9, Carolyn Y. Ho10, Daniel Jacoby111Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy; 2Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland; 3Complexo Hospitalario Universitario, A Coruña, Spain; 4University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; 5Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; 6MyoKardia, Inc., Brisbane, CA; 7HCMBeat, Los Angeles, CA; 8Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; 9Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; 10Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 11Yale University, New Haven, CT

475

Utility Of LACE Index And Center For Outcomes Research And Evaluation Readmission Risk Scores To Predict 30-day Readmissions In Veterans With Heart Failure

Fizza Hussain1, Nkiru Osude1, Joshua Newman1, Meghan O'Halloran21Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 2Edward Hines, Jr VA Hospital, Hines, IL

476

Does Watchman Implantation Increase Risk Of Heart Failure?

Megana Kommareddy1, Tyler Kelly2, Joshua F. Grant11PeaceHealth Southwest, Vancouver, WA; 2University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Encore Abstracts

Encore Presentations

ENC-001

Efficacy Of Long-Acting Octreotide In Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients With Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Tyler Wilson, David Baran, John Herre, Chad Cameron, Wayne Old, Amit Badiye, Edward Sawey, Amin Yehya, Amanda Ingemi. Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA

ENC-002

Effectiveness And Safety Of Empagliflozin In Routine Care Patients: Interim Results From The Empagliflozin Comparative Effectiveness And Safety (EMPRISE) Study

Elisabetta Patorno, Ajinkya Pawar, Lily Bessette, Jessica Franklin, Mehdi Najafzadeh, Deborah Wexler, Anouk Déruaz-Luyet, Kimberly Brodovicz, Sebastian Schneeweiss. Brigham and Women's hospital, Boston, MA

ENC-003

Worsening HF Episodes Outside A Hospital Setting In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: The PARAGON-HF Trial

Muthiah Vaduganathan1, Jonathan W. Cunningham1, Brian L. Claggett1, Finnian R. McCausland1, Ebrahim Barkoudah1, Peter Finn1, Faiez Zannad2, Marc A. Pfeffer1, Adel Rizkala3, Shalini Sabarwal3, John J. V. McMurray4, Scott D. Solomon1, Akshay S. Desai11Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France; 3Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ; 4University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

ENC-004

Initial Experience Of A Heart Failure Disease Management Clinic During The Covid-19 Era

Kimberly Cuomo, Kathryn Menzel, Abby Hubbard, Sarah Riley, Priya Umapathi, Erica Sauer, Falisha Fitts, Nisha Gilotra. Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

Late Breaking Clinical Trials

Late Breaking Clinical Trial

LBCT-002

Feasibility Of Virtual Optimization Of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy In Hospitalized Patients With HFrEF During The Covid-19 Pandemic: The IMPLEMENT-HF Pilot Study

Ankeet S. Bhatt, Anubodh Varshney, Alea Moscone, Jonathan Cunningham, Karola Jering, Lauren Sinnenberg, Mahan Nekoui, Leo Buckley III, Brian Cook, Jillian Dempsey, Julie Kelly, Danielle Knowles, Kenneth Lupi, Rhynn Malloy, Lina Matta, Megan Rhoten, Emily Hinchey, Erin McElrath, Maryam Alobaidly, Mary Amato, Catherine Ulbricht, Clara Ting, Thomas Bernier, Niteesh Choudhry, Dale S. Adler, Muthiah Vaduganathan. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

LBCT-003

Impact Of Race On Clinical Outcomes After Heartmate 3 LVAD Implantation: An Analysis From The Momentum 3 Trial

Farooq H. Sheikh1, Ashwin Ravichandran2, Daniel J. Goldstein3, Nick Dirckx4, Abi Franke5, Mandeep R. Mehra61MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; 2St. Vincent Heart Center, Westfield, IN; 3Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; 4Abbott, Plymouth, MN; 5Abbott, Sylmar, CA; 6Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

LBCT-004

Qishen Yiqi Dripping Pills For Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure: Results Of The CACT-IHF Randomized Clinical Trial

Jingyuan Mao1, Jian Zhang2, Carolyn S.P. Lam3, Mingjun Zhu4, Chen Yao5, Shutao Chen6, Zhongyong Liu7, Fengrong Wang8, Yonggang Wang9, Xiaohua Dai10, Tianfu Niu11, Dongqing An12, Yang Miao13, Tao Xu14, Bo Dong15, Xiaofeng Ma16, Fengru Zhang17, Xiaolong Wang18, Ruihong Fan19, Yingqiang Zhao20, Tiemin Jiang21, Yuhui Zhang2, Xianliang Wang1, Yazhu Hou1, Zhiqiang Zhao1, Quan Su1, Junhua Zhang22, Baohe Wang20, Boli Zhang221First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China; 2Fuwai Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; 3National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-National University of Singapore; University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands; The George Institute for Global Health, Australia., Singapore, Singapore; 4The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China; 5Peking University Clinical Research Institute, Beijing, China; 6Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China; 7The Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China; 8The First Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, China; 9The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China; 10The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China; 11Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital, Taiyuan, China; 12Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Uygur Autonomous Region, China; 13Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; 14The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, China; 15The Second Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shenyang, China; 16Affiliated Nanhua Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, China; 17Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; 18Shuguang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China; 19Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China; 20Second Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China; 21Affiliated Hospital of Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Force, Tianjin, China; 22Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

LBCT-005

Transvenous Phrenic Nerve Stimulation In Patients With Central Sleep Apnea: 5-Year Safety And Efficacy Results

Maria Rosa Costanzo1, Piotr Ponikowski2, Olaf Oldenburg3, Shahrokh Javaheri4, Ralph Augostini5, Lee Goldberg6, Christoph Stellbrink7, Henrik Fox8, Scott McKane9, Timothy Meyer9, Robin Germany9, William T. Abraham51Advocate Heart Institute, Naperville, IL; 2Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland; 3Ludgerus-Kliniken Münster, Münster, Germany; 4Bethesda North Hospital, Cinncinnati, OH; 5The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 6University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 7Bielefeld Medical Center, Bielefeld, Germany; 8Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany; 9Respicardia, Minnetonka, MN

LBCT-006

The Use Of Sacubitril Valsartan Modifies The Indication Of Cardiac Implantable Devices

Laia Carla Belarte-Tornero, Diana Mojón Álvarez, Eduard Sole-Gonzalez, Sonia Ruiz Bustillo, Sandra Valdivielso More, Alicia Calvo, Nuria Farré-López. Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

LBCT-007

Non-participation In A Heart Failure Clinical Trial: Perspectives And Opportunities From The VICTORIA Trial And Simultaneous Registry

Justin Ezekowitz1, Robert J. Mentz2, Cynthia M. Westerhout1, Nancy K. Sweitzer3, Michael M. Givertz4, Ileana L. Pina5, Christopher M. O'Connor6, Stephen J. Greene2, Joerg Koglin7, Lothar Roessig8, Adrian F. Hernandez2, Paul W. Armstrong11CVC, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 2DCRI, Durham, NC; 3Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; 4Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 5Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI; 6Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 7Merck & Co, Inc., Kenilworth, NJ; 8Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany

LBCT-009

Medical Therapy During Hospitalization For Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Results From The Victoria Registry

Robert J. Mentz1, Stephen Greene1, Justin Ezekowitz2, Kevin J. Anstrom1, Vladimir Demyanenko1, Nancy K. Sweitzer3, Michael M. Givertz4, Ileana L. Piña5, Christopher M. O'Connor6, Joerg Koglin7, Lothar Roessig8, Adrian F. Hernandez1, Paul W. Armstrong21Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; 2Canadian VIGOUR Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 3University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ; 4Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; 5Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; 6Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 7Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ; 8Bayer, Wuppertal, Germany

LBCT-010

A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Cross-over Phase 2 Study Of Intravenous Infusions Of BMS-986231 In Patients With Heart Failure And Impaired Systolic Function (StandUP-Kidney)

Pierpaolo Pellicori1,2, John G. F. Cleland1,2, G. Michael Felker3,41University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), Durham, NC; 4Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

LBCT-012

Prevalence And Characteristics Of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy In Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: Interim Results Of The TTRACK Study

Roberto Barriales-Villa1, Francesco Cappelli2, Gregor Zemljic3, Gerhard Pöelzl4, Valeria Loiacono5, Carmen Munteanu5, Catherine Saez5, Pablo Mallaina51Complejo Hosp. Univ. A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain; 2Careggi Univ. Hosp, Florence, Italy; 3Univ. Med. Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 4Innsbruck Med. Univ, Innsbruck, Austria; 5Pfizer, New York, NY

LBCT-013

Elevated Pro-BNP Level In Admitted Patients With Covid-19 Virus Infection - Period March-may 2020

Miguel A. Rodriguez Guerra, Niel Shah, Sameer Kandhi, Madhav Sharma, Zaheer Qureshi, Harjot Jagdey, Syeda Salman, Mayank Yadav, Timothy Vittorio. BronxCare Health System, Bronx, NY

LBCT-015

Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis: Patient Characteristics In Our Region

Sonia Ruiz Bustillo, Jose María Moreno Coca, Sandra Valdivielso More, Eduard Sole Gonzalez, Laia Carla Belarte Tornero, Mireia Ble Gimeno, Nuria Farre López. Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

LBCT-016

Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure With Worsening Renal Function And Persistent Congestion Are At High Risk For Adverse Outcomes Despite Extensive Diuresis

Lauren Cooper1, Adam DeVore2, Jennifer Cowger3, David Baran4, Sean Pinney5, Tara Burt6, Keith Aaronson7, Tony Walton8, Palak Shah11Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA; 2Duke University, Durham, NC; 3Henry Ford, Detroit, MI; 4Sentara, Norfolk, VA; 5University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 6Procyrion, Houston, TX; 7University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 8The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

LBCT-017

Effect Of Bmi On The Prognosis Of Heart Failure With Mid-range Ejection

Yan Xue Lang, Yao Zhang. The 2nd affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

LBCT-018

The Diagnostic Value Of Gdf-15 For Myocardial Involvement In Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy

Mengqian Qiu1, Xiaoxuan Sun2, Fengyun Lu2, Qiang Wang2, Lei Zhou21Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; 2the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

LBCT-019

Cardiac Troponin T Is Associated With Subclinical Myocardial Involvement In Patients With Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Qianhao Xu1, Qiang Wang2, Xiaoxuan Sun21Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; 2The First Afillated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

LBCT-020

Reds Monitoring In Conjunction With Multifaceted Team Reduces Readmission From Skilled Nursing Facilities

Azam Hadi, Michaelle Callihan, Alison Neal, Srinivas Murali. Allegheny, Pittsburgh, PA

LBCT-023

Presence Of Risk Factors For Atrial Fibrillation In Patients Admitted At The Bronxcare Health System In The Period 2005-2019, A Retrospective Analysis

Miguel A. Rodriguez Guerra, Mayank Yadav, Sameer Kandhi, Madhav Sharma, Timothy Vittorio. BronxCare Health System, Bronx, NY

LBCT-025

Beta Agonist Therapy For Obstructive Airways Disease In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Miguel A. Rodriguez Guerra, Mayank Yadav, Sameer Kandhi, Madhav Sharma, Timothy Vittorio. BronxCare Health System, Bronx, NY

LBCT-026

Role Of Soluble Suppression Of Tumorigenicity 2 In Screening For Cardiac Fibrosis In Dermatomyositis Patients Based On Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Parameters

Xiaoxuan Sun, Lei Zhou, Yinsu Zhu, Qiang Wang. The First Afillated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

LBCT-027

A Novel Echocardiographic Strain Technique Utilizing Myocardial Work To Generate Pressure Volume Curves Noninvasively And Characterize Aortic Regurgitation

Siu-Hin Wan, Hector R. Villarraga. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

LBCT-028

Stratification Of The Heart Failure Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Miguel A. Rodriguez Guerra, Mayank Yadav, Sameer Kandhi, Madhav Sharma, Timothy Vittorio. BronxCare Health System, Bronx, NY

LBCT-030

Different Clinical Characteristics Of Heart Failure With Mid-range Ejection Fraction And Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction In Northern Chinese Population

Liu Sun, Yao Zhang. the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Clinical Trial Row

Clinical Trial Row

CTR-001

Furoscix Real-World Evaluation for Decreasing Hospital Admissions in Heart Failure

FREEDOM-HF

scPharmaceuticals

scPharmaceuticals

CTR-002

Avoiding Treatment in the Hospital with Furoscix for the Management of Congestion in Heart Failure - A Pilot Study

AT HOME-HF PILOT

scPharmaceuticals

scPharmaceuticals

CTR-003

A Phase 3 Global, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of ION-682884 in Patients with Transthyretin-Medicated Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM)

CARDIO-TTRansform

Ions Pharmaceuticals/Akcea Therapeutics

Ions Pharmaceuticals

CTR-004

A Prospective, Multi-Center, Randomized, Controlled, Single Blind Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of the Cordella™ Pulmonary Artery Sensor System in New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III Heart Failure Patients

PROACTIVE-HF

Endotronix, Inc.

Endotronix, Inc.

CTR-005

Gene Therapy for Male Patients with Danon Disease using RP-A501; AAV9.LAMP2B

 

Rocket Pharmaceuticals

 

CTR-006

REducing Lung Congestion Symptoms Using the v-wavE Shunt in adVandED Heart Failure

RELIEVE-HF

W-Wave Ltd

W-Wave Ltd

CTR-007

CArdiovascular and REnal Treatment Implementation in Heart Failure Patients with HyperKalemia or at risk of Hyperkalemia – rationale and design

CARE HK in HF

Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma Ltd

Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma Ltd

CTR-008

Endovascular Ablation of the Right Greater Splanchnic Nerve in Subjects Having Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: The REBALANCE HF Study 

REBALANCE HF

Axon Therapies

Axon Therapies

CTR-009

Registrational Study With Omecamtiv Mecarbil to Treat Chronic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Global Approach to Lowering Adverse Cardiac Outcomes Through Improving Contractility in Heart Failure (GALACTIC-HF)

Amgen, Cytokinetics, Servier

Amgen

CTR-010

Randomized Controlled Trial of Autologous Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells Using the CardiAMP Cell Therapy system in Patients with Post-AMI Heart Failure

CardiAMP Heart Failure Trial

BioCardia, Inc.