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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Total artificial heart implantation for biventricular failure due to eosinophilic myocarditis
Masashi Kawabori1, Chitaru Kurihara2,3, Yair Miller2
1Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. kawabori.masashi@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a condition of unknown etiology characterized by proliferation of eosinophils and their infiltration into tissues. Although cardiac involvement is rare, eosinophilic myocarditis can lead to life-threating fulminant congestive heart failure. Treatment of patients with eosinophilic myocarditis is challenging as heart failure can be caused by biventricular dysfunction. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature describing a patient with acute severe biventricular heart failure caused by eosinophilic myocarditis with mural left ventricular apical thrombus who was successfully treated with implantation of a total artificial heart as a bridge to heart transplant.
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