Description

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Chapter 1. Opportunities and Challenges for LVAD Therapy Now and in The Future.- Chapter 2. The State of Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Today.- Chapter 3. Older Destination Therapy Patient Selection.- Chapter 4. The Economics of Long-Term Ventricular Assist Device Therapy for Patients with End Stage Heart Failure.- Chapter 5. Improving Clinical Outcomes: A Targeted Approach.- Chapter 6. Transplant versus VAD: Evolving and Future Perspectives.- Chapter 7. Strategies to Assess and Minimize Right Heart Failure after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation.- Chapter 8. Innovation Update.

About the Author

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Kyo Shunei obtained PhD degree in the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine, Japan in 1974. Then he worked at Mitsui memorial Hospital as a Resident Surgery till 1980. After serving 2 years at the Department of Surgery of Harvard University as a Research Fellow, he joined the Department of Surgery of Saitama Medical School in 1982 as a lecturer, and promoted to an assistant Professor in 1993, then to a full Professor in 1997, respectively. He has leaded the team members of Department of Therapeutic Strategy for Heart Failure of the University of Tokyo as a Project Professor from 2009. Also, he joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology as an assistant Director in 2011.