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HFSA13: Health reform, mechanical support devices take center stage


 

At the 2013 Heart Failure Society of America, held in Orlando, hotly debated topics will include multidisciplinary approaches to treating heart failure patients, health reform, better selection of mechanical support devices for heart failure patients, and heart failure readmissions.

Dr. David DeNofrio, the scientific program's co-chair, and director of heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, discusses the issues in an interview with IMNG Medical Media.

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