CardioWest Total Artificial Heart in a Moribund Adolescent With Left Ventricular Thrombi
| Autor: | Raj K. Bose, M. Cristina Smith, Pei H. Tsau, Gulshan K. Sethi, Daniel S. Woolley, Birger Rhenman, Richard G. Smith, Francisco A. Arabia, Jack G. Copeland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Thorax medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Heart Diseases Heart Ventricles medicine.medical_treatment Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator Cardiomyopathy Heart Artificial Prosthesis Design law.invention law Internal medicine Artificial heart medicine Humans cardiovascular diseases Thrombus Heart transplantation business.industry Patient Selection Thrombosis medicine.disease Surgery Muscular Dystrophy Duchenne Treatment Outcome surgical procedures operative Ventricular assist device Heart failure cardiovascular system Cardiology Heart Transplantation Cardiomyopathies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 80:1490-1492 |
| ISSN: | 0003-4975 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.04.094 |
| Popis: | Bridge to transplant is a well-known strategy to enable patients with congestive heart failure to live until transplant. A 15-year-old boy with Beckers' muscular dystrophy and cardiomyopathy was accepted for heart transplantation. He suffered a cardiac arrest and was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenator. A paracorporeal biventricular assist device and a total artificial heart were considered for bridge to transplant. A CardioWest total artificial heart was chosen because of the patient's size. Multiple left ventricular thrombi were identified at the time of the ventriculectomy. The patient did well with the total artificial heart was transplanted and discharged home. The unknown presence of significant left ventricular thrombi raises the question of outcome with a paracorporeal ventricular assist device. |
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