Title:

Comprehensive Care of the Cardiomyopathy Patient: From Pillars that Sustain to Buttresses that Assist

Presented by:

J. Eduardo Rame, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FESC

Director of Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplant

Thomas Jefferson University Division of Cardiology,

Philadelphia, PA

Financial Disclosure:

Co-Primary Investigator ReSTAGE HF (Thoratec, now Abbott, Inc)

Primary Investigagor ADVANCE and ENDURANCE (HeartWare, now Medtronic Inc)

National PI: SoPRANO (Macitentan post LVAD, Jannsen)

Objectives:

1. To describe the different adaptations of human heart failure

2. To describe the potential for myocardial recovery

3. To describe the pillars of heart failure therapy