UF Advanced Heart Failure Program – Selected Bibliography

Meece LE, Yu J, Jeng EI, Ahmed MM. Contemporary Mechanical Circulatory Support with Continuous Flow Biventricular Assist Devices: A Systematic Review. Cardiology in Review. Accepted for publication September 25, 2021.

Ahmed MM, Li P, Meece LE, Bian J, Shao H. A Varied Approach to Left Ventricular Assist Device Follow-Up & Improved Cost-Effectiveness. Curr Med Res Opin. 2021 28;1. doi:10.1080/03007995.2021.1948395.

Meece LE and Ahmed MM. What happens when a disruptive technology gets disrupted? AHJ Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice.

Elzeneini M, Aranda JM Jr, Al-Ani M, Ahmed MM, Parker AM, Vilaro JR. Hemodynamic effects of ivabradine use in combination with intravenous inotropic therapy in advanced heart failure. Heart Fail Rev. 2021; 26(2):335-361.

Al-Ani M, Taha MB, Stewart BD, Graves GS, Ahmed MM, Parker AM, Aranda JM Jr, Vilaro J. Cardiac Sarcoidosis in the Donor Heart Without Extracardiac Manifestations. BMJ Case Rep. 2021; 14: e24 1902. doi:10.1136/bcr-2021-241902.

Elzeneini M, Ahmad M, Elsayed A, Taha Y, Meece LE, Neal D, Al-Ani M, Jeng EI, Arnoutakis G, Vilaro J, Parker AM, Aranda J, Ahmed MM. Predictors of Perioperative Bleeding in Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. AHJ Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice. 10.1016/j.ahjo.2021.100006.

Meece LE, Park K, Wen TS, Jeng EI, Ahmed MM. Pregnancy with a Ventricular Assist Device: A Systematic Review of Existing Literature. J Card Fail. 2021; 27(2): 185-187.

Jeng EI, Miller A, Friedman J, Tapia-Ruano SA, Reilly KD, Parker A, Vilaro J, Aranda JM, Klodell C, Beaver TM, Arnaoutakis G, Ahmed M. Ventricular Device Implantation and Bariatric Surgery: A Route to Transplantation in Morbidly Obese Patients with End Stage Heart Failure. ASAIO J. 2021; 67(2):163-168. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001212.

Parker, AM, Vilaro JR, Ahmed MM and Aranda JM. Current Management Strategies in Patients with Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation: A Review of the Literature. Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, 5(2), 73-80.

Taha MB, Dasa O, Al-Ani M, Taha OB, Radhakrishnan NS, Ahmed MM. Acute right ventricular failure: a novel presentation of methadone- induced cardiotoxicity. BMJ Case Rep 2020;13:e237168. doi:10.1136/bcr-2020-237168.

Deshmukh A, McGough E, Ahmed M. Transaxillary Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Promotes Physical Rehabilitation in Patients Requiring Long-term Mechanical Circulatory Support. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 Aug 26:S1053-0770(20)30845-4. doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2020.08.050.

Al-Ani M, Gul SS, Khatri A, Chowdhury MAB, Drabin M, Murphy T, Allen B, Aranda JM, Vilaro J, Jeng EI, Arnoutakis G, Parker AM, Meece LE, Ahmed MM. Patterns of Emergency Department Utilization for LVAD patients compared to non-LVAD patients. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 2020. Liu H, Jeng E, Demos D, Vilaro J, Ahmed MM, Parker A, Pinzon J, Aranda J, Beaver TM, Arnaoutakis GJ. Early Versus Standard Renal Replacement Therapy after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. J Card Surg. 2020;35:2529-2538.

Parker AM, Vilaro JR, Aranda JM Jr, Al-Ani M, George P Jr, Ahmed MM. Leadless pacemaker use in a patient with a durable left ventricular assist device. Pacing and Clin Electrophysiol. 2020; 1-3.

Jeng EI, Hall DJ, Vilaro J, Lipori P, Parker A, Ahmed M, Aranda JM Jr, Martin TD, Beaver TM, Arnaoutakis GJ. Utilizing the Index for Mortality Prediction after Cardiac Transplantation Risk Score to Predict Hospital Resource Consumption. J Card Surg. 2020.

Ahmed MM, Roukoz H, Trivedi JR, Bhan A, Ravichandran A, Dhawan R, Cowger J, Bhat G, Birks EJ, Slaughter MS, Gopinathannair R. Questionable utility of digoxin in left-ventricular assist device recipients: a multicenter, retrospective analysis. PLoS ONE. 2019 14 (11):e0225628.

Gopinathannair R, Roukuz H, Tivedi JR, Cowger J, Bhan A, Ravichandran A, Bhat G, Birks EJ, Slaughter MS, Ahmed MM. Impact of QRS Duration and ventricular Pacing on Clinical Arrhythmic Outcomes in Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients: A Multicenter Study. J Card Fail. 2019 Feb 21. pii: S1071-9164(18)30335-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2019.02.013. [Epub ahead of print.]

Ahmed M, Magar SM, Jeng EI, Arnaoutakis GJ, Beaver TM, Vilaro J, Klodell CT, and Aranda JM. Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Clinical Outcomes with Ventricular Assist Devices. Clinical Cardiology. 2018 Sep 17. doi: 10.1002/clc.23070. [Epub ahead of print.]

Gopinathannair R, Roukoz H, Bhan A, Ravichandran A, Ahmed MM, Familtsev D, Bhat G, Cowger J, Abdullah M, Sandesara C, Dhawan R, Birks EJ, Trivedi JR, and Slaughter MS. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Clinical Outcomes in Continuous Flow LVAD Recipients. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018; 7(12). DOI:10.1161/JAHA.117.009091.

Ahmed M, Rahman M, Neal D, Aranda JM, and Klodell CT. Ventricular Assist Device Patients Have Different Clinical Outcomes and Altered Patterns of Bleeding with Intracranial Hemorrhage. ASAIO Journal. February 9, 2018. Volume Online First. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000000744.

Intravenous Administration of Umbilical Cord Lining Stem Cells in Left Ventricualr Assist Device Recipients: Rationale and Design of the uSTOP LVAD Bleed Pilot Study. AHJ Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice.

Fixed-dose Aspirin Monotherapy Compared with Thromboelastography Directed Antiplatelet Therapy in Long-Term Management of Left ventricular Assist Devices.  Journal of Cardiac Surgery.

Effect of Angiotensin II Antagonism on Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. ASAIO J. JE, Ghannam A, Ahmed M.

Pericardial Release for Early LVAD Malalignment. Authorea. April 27, 2020.DOI: 10.22541/au.158802268.83045989.

Impact of Laproscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy of LVAD Patients.  Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology.