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Successful explantation of a left ventricular assist device following acute fulminant myocarditis
Ismaïl El-Hamamsy1, Michel White, Michel Pellerin
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Quebec.
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|May 11, 2006
Abstract:
A left ventricular (LV) assist device was implanted in a 53-year-old woman in cardiogenic shock secondary to fulminant myocarditis. LV function recovered to normal after one week of support from an LV assist device. The device was explanted and the patient is showing a good outcome with a normalized LV function.

