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An approach to LVAD explantation during heart transplantation
Nader Moazami1, Michael K Pasque
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. moazamin@wustl.edu
The Heart Surgery Forum
|March 17, 2005
Abstract:
Reoperations during ventricular assist device (VAD) explantation and subsequent heart transplantation are difficult procedures because of dense adhesions, obliterated planes of dissection, and proximity of the right ventricle to the sternum. We present our approach for left VAD explantation to minimize potential complications that may occur during this procedure.
