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Implantation of the Syncardia Total Artificial Heart
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Heart transplantation in a patient with a left ventricular assist device and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
Christof Schmid1, Michael Schneider, Christian Etz
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Muenster, Germany. schmid@uni-muenster.de
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 30, 2004
Abstract:
We report a patient who underwent implantation of a DeBakey left-ventricular assist device and developed a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus drive line infection on postoperative day 304. The patient was forwarded to urgent heart transplantation with a successful outcome.
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