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Use of a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device/Left Atrium to Femoral Artery Bypass System for Cardiogenic Shock
Published on: August 16, 2021
Off-pump technique for Thoratec left ventricular assist device insertion
Valentino Piacentino1, Arun K Singhal, Mahender Macha
1Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Abstract:
We present a case of left ventricular assist device (Thoratec; Thoratec Laboratories Corp, Pleasanton, CA) insertion performed through a left thoracotomy without cardiopulmonary bypass in a patient with severe end-stage congestive heart failure with renal and respiratory dysfunction and a history of multiple cardiac operations.
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