title: Severe anaemia and subcapital femur fracture in a patient with Left Ventricular Assist Device Heart Mate II: the cardiologist's management of this rare patient.
abstract: The use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) has increased over the last decade because of the lack of healthy donor hearts. In this report we describe for the first time a patient with an LVAD Heart Mate II (HM II) implanted 6 months before admission, who initially suffered from severe anaemia and later on underwent a successful bipolar hip replacement owing to subcapital fracture of the right femur. The patient was managed successfully by a team approach, which included a cardiologist, anaesthesiologist, orthopaedic surgeon, and LVAD technician.
authors: Second Department of Cardiology, Heart Failure Unit, Attikon University Hospital, 1 Rimini Street, Athens, Greece. bgogas@gmail.com
authors: Bill D
authors: BD
authors: Gogas
authors: John T
authors: JT
authors: Parissis
authors: Gerasimos S
authors: GS
authors: Filippatos
authors: Efstathios K
authors: EK
authors: Iliodromitis
authors: Konstantinos C
authors: KC
authors: Soultanis
authors: Georgia G
authors: GG
authors: Kostopanagiotou
authors: Stergios P
authors: SP
authors: Theodoropoulos
authors: Dimitrios T
authors: DT
authors: Kremastinos
authors: Magdi H
authors: MH
authors: Yacoub
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; D002309:Cardiology / Q000639:trends*; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013577:Syndrome