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Implantation of the Syncardia Total Artificial Heart
Published on: July 18, 2014
Over 1200-day support with dual Jarvik 2000 biventricular assist device
Daisuke Yoshioka1, Koichi Toda2, Yasushi Yoshikawa2
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan djason55@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We report the successful longest biventricular support using dual Jarvik 2000 biventricular assist device (BVAD; Jarvik Heart, Inc., New York, NY, USA) as a bridge to transplant. A 27-year old woman with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy underwent implantation of two Jarvik 2000s as a left ventricular assist device and right ventricular assist device. Although several BVAD-related complications including haemolysis, hepatic dysfunction, heart failure and pulmonary valve insufficiency developed at a very late stage, she was successfully bridged to heart transplantation after 1245 days of biventricular support, which is the longest in the literature. Despite advances in continuous-flow ventricular assist devices, their long-term use for biventricular support remains limited. We report a successful case of 1245 days of biventricular support with dual Jarvik 2000 axial flow pumps in a patient with a small body surface area.
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