{"id":1362,"date":"2009-11-18T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/at-the-ahacontinuous-may-be-better-than-pulsatile-flow-for-destination-vads\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:07","slug":"at-the-ahacontinuous-may-be-better-than-pulsatile-flow-for-destination-vads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2009\/11\/18\/at-the-ahacontinuous-may-be-better-than-pulsatile-flow-for-destination-vads\/","title":{"rendered":"At the AHA:\u00a0Continuous May Be Better Than Pulsatile Flow For Destination VADs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among 200 patients ineligible for heart transplantation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/nejm\/content\/full\/361\/23\/2241\">HeartMate II study<\/a>, continuous-flow LVAD therapy was associated with a lower rate of the primary endpoint, freedom from stroke or device failure, when compared to pulsatile-flow destination therapy at 2 years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/jwatch\/cardiology\/content\/full\/2009\/1117\/3?searchTerm=william+abraham\">Dr. William Abraham<\/a>&nbsp;summarizes the findings and editorialist&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/nejm\/content\/full\/2009\/1117\/0910394#ArticleTabs\">Dr. James Fang<\/a> weighs in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 200 patients ineligible for heart transplantation in the HeartMate II study, continuous-flow LVAD therapy was associated with a lower rate of the primary endpoint, freedom from stroke or device failure, when compared to pulsatile-flow destination therapy at 2 years.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dr. William Abraham&nbsp;summarizes the findings and editorialist&nbsp;Dr. James Fang weighs in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}