Left ventricular assist device insertion and open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in same admission for an end-stage heart failure patient.

Autor: Wong MKH; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Ho CKL; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Fan KYY; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Au TWK; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery [Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg] 2022 Jun 01; Vol. 34 (6), pp. 1180-1182.
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivab362
Abstrakt: Patients suffering from end-stage heart failure also suffer from multiple cardiovascular comorbidities such as abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Mechanical support with left ventricular assist device with open repair of AAA repair has rarely been reported in literature. The authors describe a 60-year-old male with end-stage heart failure and a symptomatic AAA with sequential left ventricular assist device insertion and open AAA repair with aortic cross-clamping.
(© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.)
Databáze: MEDLINE