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Tomasz Siminiak, Justina C. Wu, Michael Haude, Uta C. Hoppe, Jerzy Sadowski,
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Results of the TITAN trial evaluating the CARILLON® Mitral Contour System® in treating functional mitral regurgitation in symptomatic heart failure patients.
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Study documenting ability to insert CRT lead through previously deployed CARILLON device.
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First clinical trial evaluating the CARILLON® Mitral Contour System® used to treat functional mitral regurgitation in symptomatic heart failure patients.
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Procedural results from the AMADEUS trial using the CARILLON® Mitral Contour System®.
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Pre-clinical study demonstrating acute and chronic efficacy of CARILLON therapy in an animal heart failure model.
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Study describing the clinical benefit of implanting a cardiac resynchronization device in patients with heart failure and electrical dyssynchrony. Magnitude of exercise benefit in both intervention and blinded control group described.
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Surgical study evaluating the control arm from the ACORN Trial demonstrating the safety and efficacy of ring annuloplasty primarily in non-ischemic patients with heart failure and mitral regurgitation (80% of which was functional).
Mitral regurgitation in myocardial infarction complicated by heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction, or both: prognostic significance and relation to ventricular size and function.
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2008 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease): endorsed by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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Practice guidelines describing the standard of care for patients with heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation
Development and evaluation of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire: a new health status measure for heart failure.
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Description of validity, sensitivity and reliability of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire to assess heart failure patients.
2009 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
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Practice guidelines developed by the heart failure society regarding the management of chronic heart failure.
Dynamic mitral regurgitation. An important determinant of the hemodynamic response to load alterations and inotropic therapy in severe heart failure.
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Effect of exercise on functional mitral regurgitation characterized. Study showed that with exercise, mitral regurgitation volume increased greater than 70%, while forward stroke volume substantially decreased.
Mitral regurgitation in patients with advanced systolic heart failure.
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Epidemiologic study evaluating prevalence of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with advanced heart failure.
The role of ischemic mitral regurgitation in the pathogenesis of acute pulmonary edema.
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Study evaluating the effect of exercise induced changes in functional mitral regurgitation
Relation of frequency and severity of mitral regurgitation to survival among patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure.
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Study of 2057 patients with ejection fraction < 40% showing that compared to those without MR, those with mild and mod/severe MR had an 18% and 53% increased risk of death respectively.