Successful HeartWare Bridge to Recovery in a 3-Year Old: A Game Changer?
We report a 3-year-old boy weighing 13.5 kg who presented with intractable cardiac failure resulting from myocarditis and was treated by implantation of a HeartWare (HVAD) device. He was discharged home with the device. His cardiac function subsequently recovered, and the device was decommissioned. We believe this to be the youngest HVAD recipient and the only child to have recovered and had the device decommissioned.
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Electronic address: richard.kirk@nuth.nhs.uk.
Richard
R
Kirk
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Ed
E
Peng
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Andrew
A
Woods
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Julie
J
Flett
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Terry
T
Hewitt
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Massimo
M
Griselli
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Stephen
S
Schueler
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Neil
N
Wrightson
Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Asif
A
Hasan
D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001706:Biopsy; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D020105:Milrinone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D020127:Recovery of Function; D000068677:Sildenafil Citrate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000925:Anticoagulants; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D000068677:Sildenafil Citrate; D020105:Milrinone