Cardiopulmonary Failure
Session
Description: Morbid obesity and advanced heart failure are severe pathological conditions that individually present a poor mid term prognosis.
Patients suffering both diseases present a particullarly challenging scenario in which one pathology may preclude the treatment of the other, as most programs will not offer heart tranplantation for mobidly obese patients, and their advanced heart failure precludes them from exercise or surgical interventions targetting weight loss.
The goal of this session is review strategies to facilitate the management of morbidly obese patients presenting with advanced heart failure.
Nicolas A. Brozzi, MD – Cleveland Clinic Florida
Scott Silvestry, MD – Adventhealth Transplant Institute
Christopher Salerno, MD – University of Chicago