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Impella in Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock: History and Current Controversies
Muhammad Siyab Panhwar, Grant W Reed, Vardhmaan Jain
1Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Regional Section of Interventional Cardiology at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, 224 West Exchange St, Suite 225, Akron, OH 44302 USA. kalraa@ccf.org.
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In this review, the authors discuss a brief history of the Impella mechanical circulatory support device, a mechanistic role for the device in the context of the underlying pathophysiology of acute myocardial infarction cardiogenic shock (AMI-CS), the current body of literature evaluating its role in AMI-CS, and upcoming efforts to identify a role more clearly for the device in AMI-CS.
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