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Use of Two Intracorporeal Ventricular Assist Devices As a Total Artificial Heart
Published on: May 11, 2018
Permanent use of a ventricle assist device for dilated cardiomyopathy in Friedreich's ataxia
Masataka Yoda1, Aly El-Banayosy, Latif Arusoglu
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North-Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany. masatakayoda@aol.com
Abstract:
A patient with Friedreich's ataxia was hospitalized due to dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. We received informed consent from the patient and his family for implantation of an implantable ventricular assist device (VAD) as permanent support. At the one-year follow-up examination, the neuromuscular symptoms had progressed no further, and he had no VAD systemic failure and complications. This is the first case report of VAD implantation in a Friedreich's ataxia patient.
