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Ventricular Assist Device and Ductal Stent as Bridge to Heart Transplant for Pulmonary Atresia-Intact Ventricular
John D Vossler1, Srujan Ganta2, Peter Chau3
1Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Abstract:
Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PA-IVS) and myocardial dysfunction is a challenging entity to manage. Presented is a patient with PA-IVS who developed myocardial dysfunction and heart failure following an episode of periprocedural hypotension. He was successfully treated with a single ventricle assist device (SVAD) placed without cardiopulmonary bypass and a ductal stent as a bridge to donation after circulatory death heart transplant. This report describes the technique of SVAD placement without cardiopulmonary bypass.

