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High Risk Cardiac Patient Timeline
This case study timeline illustrates how clinicians at a large academic hospital used hTEE to carefully guide management of the right ventricle (RV) after LVAD implantation. Through hTEE direct visualization, clinicians quickly identified RV overload shortly after the removal of right side support, and administration of fluids.
In a recent 2014 study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, RV dysfunction was identified in 33% of post-op LVAD patients.