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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Implantation of Two HVADs Used as a Total Artificial Heart: A New Approach
Guillaume Lebreton1, Ciro Mastroianni1, Julien Amour2
1Cardiac Surgery Department, Pitié-Salpétrière Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Abstract:
A 30-year-old patient had angiosarcoma of the right atrium with a negative outcome. The use of a SynCardia or Carmat was not possible due to invasion of the right atrium by the tumor, so we implanted two HeartWare ventricular assist devices (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) in a total artificial heart configuration using a technique not previously described. The surgical follow-up was simple, and the patient remained alive 30 days postoperatively. The technique we describe herein offers new prospects for the implantation of two HeartWare ventricular assist devices in a total artificial heart configuration.
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