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Amale Ghandour1, Renzo Cecere1
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Journal of Surgical Case Reports
|September 29, 2021
Abstract:
Pump thrombosis can occur in patients with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). It can be treated medically with thrombolytic agents or surgically. We present a case of a man who successfully underwent an LVAD swap via left anterior thoracotomy due to recurrent thromboses in the inflow cannula.

