Interventional Therapies for Heart Failure in Older Adults
Dhaval Kolte1, Jinnette Dawn Abbott1, Herbert D Aronow2
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brown University, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
Abstract:
Heart failure (HF) remains the leading cause of hospitalization in older adults and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality despite the use of guideline-directed medical therapy. There has been tremendous progress in the development of novel transcatheter and interventional therapies for HF over the past decade. The evolution of structural heart disease interventions and interventional HF has led to a multidisciplinary heart team approach in the management of HF patients. Careful selection of the appropriate patient population and end points in future randomized controlled trials will be crucial to demonstrate the potential efficacy of the novel interventional HF therapies.
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