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Massive intercostal hemorrhage after implantation of an intrapericardial ventricular assist device: A case report
James C Etheridge1, Ryan S Cousins2, Jonathan M Philpott3
1Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|October 28, 2020
Abstract:
Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have become integral to the treatment of advanced heart failure. Surgical bleeding is a known complication of LVAD placement but is most associated with intraperitoneal pump locations. Here we describe a case of massive postoperative hemorrhage secondary to erosion of an intrapericardial LVAD into an intercostal artery with an associated rib fracture.

