Publications by authors named "Gene Wolfel"
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- Patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) show sustained limitations in their exercise capacity even after receiving a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD).
- The study monitored ten patients' hemodynamics and functional capacity through a series of cardiopulmonary exercise tests before and after CF-LVAD implantation to assess changes with different pump speeds.
- Results indicated no significant improvement in maximal oxygen uptake or cardiovascular measurements following implantation, suggesting the need for further research on enhancing exercise capacity in HFrEF patients post-device insertion.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a DNA virus of the Herpesviridae family and is estimated to affect 15%-30% of high-risk solid organ transplant recipients. Typical manifestations of CMV end-organ disease in this population include colitis, esophagitis, and pneumonitis, and myocarditis is a rarely reported manifestation. We describe two cases of CMV myocarditis in solid organ transplant recipients and review the literature regarding previously published cases of CMV myocarditis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The prognostic ability of a single measurement of peak oxygen uptake (VO(2)) is well established in patients with chronic heart failure. The relation between a change in peak VO(2) and clinical outcomes is not well defined.
Methods And Results: This investigation determined whether an increase in peak VO(2) was associated with a lower risk of the primary end point of time to all-cause mortality or all-cause hospitalization and 3 secondary end points.