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Shared Decision Making in Cardiac Transplantation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors :
Christopher T. Salerno
Sunit-Preet Chaudhry
Mary Norine Walsh
Ashwin Ravichandran
Source :
JACC: Case Reports, Vol 2, Iss 9, Pp 1365-1367 (2020), JACC: Case Reports
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2020.

Abstract

Shared decision making with patients in advanced heart failure is critical when making decisions on therapies such as left ventricular assist device implantation and cardiac transplantation. We describe a case wherein the risks of coronavirus disease-2019 affected the decision of a patient regarding proceeding with cardiac transplantation. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.).

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26660849
Volume :
2
Issue :
9
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
JACC: Case Reports
Accession number :
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