One-Year Results After Implantation of the CorCap for Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Giuseppe Speziale, MD, Giuseppe Nasso, MD, Felice Piancone, MD, Katerina Generali, MD, Carlo Paterno, MD, Annabella Miccoli, MD, Flavio Fiore, MD, Armando Del Prete, MD, Giuseppe Del Prete, MD, Vincenzo Lopriore, MD, Francesco Spirito, MD, Pasquale Caldarola, MD, Domenico Paparella, MD, Francesco Massari, MD, Luigi Tavazzi, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 91, Issue 5, Pages 1356-1362 (May 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.006 Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Change of the mean (A) Physical Health summary score and (B) Mental Health summary score with respect to the baseline values in the overall study population. The improvement over time in the Physical Health score is statistically significant (p = 0.009; (one-way analysis of variance). The range bars show the standard deviation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 1356-1362DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.006) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Change of the mean (A) Physical Health summary score and (B) Mental Health summary score with respect to baseline values in the patients who were treated with the CorCap device alone or with the CorCap device plus cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The difference in score changes among these subgroups is not statistically significant (longitudinal regression analysis). The range bars show the standard deviation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 1356-1362DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.006) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Kaplan-Meier survival curves for the entire follow-up are shown for (A) patients who received implantation of CorCap alone vs patients who received CorCap plus cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT); the difference is not statistically significant. (B) The patients who received left ventricular passive containment therapy showed inferior follow-up survival if the dilated cardiomyopathy was ischemic in origin (p = 0.032). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 1356-1362DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.006) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions