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Shared Decision Making in Cardiac Transplantation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Source :
- JACC: Case Reports, Vol 2, Iss 9, Pp 1365-1367 (2020), JACC: Case Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2020.
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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.).
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Cardiomyopathy
030105 genetics & heredity
medicine.disease
chronic heart failure
Transplantation
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Heart failure
RC666-701
Pandemic
medicine
cardiovascular system
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Intensive care medicine
business
cardiac transplant
cardiomyopathy
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26660849
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JACC: Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ba6054904aa9fe397553f0372334f2f