TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed, Sara AU - Craig, Paige E AU - Kolm, Paul AU - Molina, Ezequiel J AU - Najjar, Samer S AU - Sheikh, Farooq AU - Weintraub, William S TI - Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies Receiving Mechanical Circulatory Support: An STS-INTERMACS Registry Analysis SN - 1071-9164 PY - 2022/// KW - *Heart Failure KW - *Heart-Assist Devices KW - *Myocarditis KW - Female KW - Heart Failure/ep [Epidemiology] KW - Heart Failure/th [Therapy] KW - Heart-Assist Devices/ae [Adverse Effects] KW - Humans KW - Myocarditis/et [Etiology] KW - Registries KW - Retrospective Studies KW - Treatment Outcome KW - MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute KW - Journal Article N1 - Available online from MWHC library: 1995 - present N2 - BACKGROUND: Durable mechanical circulatory support (MCS) therapy improves survival in patients with advanced heart failure. Knowledge regarding the outcomes experienced by patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy (CM) who receive durable MCS therapy is limited; CONCLUSIONS: Patients with inflammatory CM who received durable MCS appear to have a similar survival compared with patients with idiopathic dilated CM despite a higher early adverse event burden. Our findings support the use of durable MCS in an inflammatory CM population. Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved; METHODS AND RESULTS: We compared patients with inflammatory CM with patients with idiopathic dilated CM enrolled in the STS-INTERMACS registry. Among 19,012 patients, 329 (1.7%) had inflammatory CM and 5978 had idiopathic dilated CM (31.4%). The patients with inflammatory CM were younger, more likely to be White, and women. These patients experienced more preoperative arrhythmias and higher use of temporary MCS. Patients with inflammatory CM had a higher rate of early adverse events (<3 months after device implant), including bleeding, arrhythmias, non-device-related infections, neurologic dysfunction, and respiratory failure. The rate of late adverse events (>=3 months) was similar in the 2 groups. Patients with inflammatory CM had a similar 1-year (80% vs 84%) and 2-year (72% vs 76%, P=.15) survival. Myocardial recovery resulting in device explant was more common among patients with inflammatory CM (5.5% vs 2.3%, P < .001) UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.07.025 ER -