Heart failure recovery with mechanical circulatory support

An Expert Panel was convened in the Winnipeg 2001 Heart Congress to examine heart failure recovery mechanisms after mechanical circulatory support. The Expert Panel consisted of leading researchers, and clinicians knowledgeable in the use of mechanical circulatory support devices, and focused on heart failure recovery mechanisms at the gene, cell, organ and patient levels after prolonged mechanical circulatory support. Views of each panelist, about the circulatory support, was presented in this report. Clearly, the use of mechanical circulatory devices have not only saved many individual lives but the approach also seems to modulate or even reverse heart failure processes at all levels of body organization.