Right ventricular infarction during left ventricular assist system support.
Left ventricular assist devices are frequently used to bridge patients to cardiac transplantation. As this experience grows, new and unanticipated complications will occur. This report describes a 50-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy being bridged to cardiac transplantation who suffered an acute right ventricular infarction during the interval of support.
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Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, Missouri 63110-0250, USA. mcbridlm@wpogate.slu.edu
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Moroney
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D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*