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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Eosinophilic heart disease with vasculitis: supported by HeartMate left ventricular assist device and heart
Chiao-Po Hsu1, Shiao-Hwang Chang, Jih-Shiuan Wang
1Department of Surgery National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Abstract:
Eosinophilic heart disease is rarely seen in clinical practice. We report a patient with eosinophilic heart disease who presented with acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. Because of lack of a donor organ and progressive deterioration of his general condition in spite of intraaortic balloon pumping, a left ventricular assist device (HeartMate 1000 IP; Thermo Cardiosystems Inc, Woburn, MA) was implanted before development of irreversible multiple organ failure and was followed by heart transplantation.
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