Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

An intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) is a type of mechanical device used to assist blood flow. It's implanted into the body's ...

An intra-aortic balloon pump is a temporary treatment that helps the heart pump enough ... A surgeon makes a cut into an artery in the upper leg to insert the IABP. Using X-ray imaging to guide ...

Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

Researchers report that the elective use of IABP during PCI was associated with a 34% reduction in the risk of death after a median follow-up of 51 months. They were cautious in interpreting the ...

Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

In this single-center study, bedside IABP placement under echocardiographic guidance resulted in correct device positioning at chest X-ray in 82.9% of cases, which was similar to the 82.5% after ...

August 30, 2011 (Paris, France) — The routine use of intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) support during PCI for acute, potentially large anterior MIs--as measured by electrocardiography--does ...

On the other hand, the impact of IABP therapy trended the wrong way in infarct size estimated by CK-MB (338 U/L for IABP versus 311 U/L for control, P=0.532), according to Lokien van Nunen, ...

For the 37-center IABP-SHOCK (Intra-aortic Balloon Pump in Cardiogenic Shock) II trial, Holger Thiele, MD, of the University of Leipzig-Heart Center (Leipzig, Germany), and colleagues randomized 600 ...

In the multicentre, open-label, randomized, controlled trial IABP-SHOCK II, the previously reported 30-day data demonstrated no early mortality reduction with intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) use ...