{"id":225496,"date":"2026-02-25T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-inbit.dev-praxis.gr\/?post_type=hta_library&#038;p=225496"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:53:21","slug":"left-ventricular-assist-devices-an-evidence-based-analysis","status":"publish","type":"hta_library","link":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/hta_library\/left-ventricular-assist-devices-an-evidence-based-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Ventricular Assist Devices: An Evidence-Based Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The objective of this health technology policy assessment was to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness&nbsp;of using implantable ventricular assist devices in the treatment of end-stage heart failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heart failure is a complex syndrome that impairs the ability of the heart to maintain adequate blood&nbsp;circulation, resulting in multiorgan abnormalities and, eventually, death. In the period of 1994 to 1997,&nbsp;38,702 individuals in Ontario had a first hospital admission for heart failure. Despite reported&nbsp;improvement in survival, the five-year mortality rate for heart failure is about 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ventricular assist devices [VADs] have been developed to provide circulatory assistance to patients with&nbsp;end-stage heart failure. These are small pumps that usually assist the damaged left ventricle [LVADs] and&nbsp;may be situated within the body (intracorporeal] or outside the body [extracorporeal). Some of these&nbsp;devices were designed for use in the right ventricle [RVAD] or both ventricles (bi-ventricular).&nbsp;LVADs have been mainly used as a &#8220;bridge-to-transplant&#8221; for patients on a transplant waiting list. As&nbsp;well, they have been used as a &#8221; bridge-to-recovery&#8221; in acute heart failure, but this experience is limited.&nbsp;There has been an increasing interest in using LVAD as a permanent (destination) therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[17],"tags":[66,77],"class_list":["post-225496","hta_library","type-hta_library","status-publish","hentry","category-full-reports","tag-implantable","tag-lvad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hta_library\/225496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hta_library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hta_library"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inbit.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}