Figure 1.

‘End-stage’ heart failure: potential surgical interventional therapies based on left-right heart interactions as described here. BIVAD, biventricular assist device; BLV, borderline left ventricle; BRV, borderline right ventricle; DA, ductus arteriosus; DCM, dilated cardiomyopathy; dEF, depressed ejection fraction; diastol., diastolic; Ebst., Ebstein anomaly; HTx, heart transplantation; IPAH, idiopathic pulmonary hypertension; (L)HTx, (lung) heart transplantation; LV-DCM, left ventricular-dilated cardiomyopathy; LV, left ventricle; LVAD, left ventricular assist device; Modif., modified; OoP-LAP, out-of-proportion left atrial pressure; pcPH, precapillary pulmonary hypertension; pEF, preserved ejection fraction; PFO, persistent foramen ovale; PH-ss-PH, pulmonary hypertension to suprasystemic pulmonary hypertension; rASD, restrictive atrial septum defect; RCM, restrictive cardiomyopathy; rPAB, reversible pulmonary artery banding; rPotts-S, reverse Potts shunt; RV, right ventricle.