Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Patients With Heart Failure From Before to Early After Advanced Surgical Therapies: Findings From the SUSTAIN-IT Study.

"Disclosures Dr Grady is a consultant for Amgen Inc; paid lecturer for American Heart Association; and received grant support from the National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Aging and National Heart‚ Lung‚ and Blood Institute). Dr Kao is a member of Advisory Board for CareDx and Bioventrix. Dr Spertus is a consultant for Amgen, Novartis, Bayer, Myokardia, and Janssen; Scientific Advisory Board, United HealthCare; Board of Directors, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kansas City; and is a copyright holder to Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire. Dr Pagani is a noncompensated scientific advisor for FineHeart Inc; member of Data Safety Board Member for Carmat and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PumpKIN Clinical Study; and grant support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr Petty receives speaking honorarium from Abbott Inc. M. Murray is a consultant on a research project at GE Healthcare. Dr Silvestry is a consultant for Abiomed, Medtronic, Syncardia, and Abbott. Dr Kirklin is a director of the Data and Clinical Consulting Center of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support and receives grant support from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging. Dr Yancy reports spousal employment at Abbott Labs Inc. The other authors report no conflicts."

"Sources of Funding This work was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, SUSTAIN-IT study (Sustaining Quality of Life of the Aged: Heart Transplant or Mechanical Support; R01AG047416, Dr Grady [Principal Investigator])."

"Registration:: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT02568930."