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Replacement of an intracorporeal left ventricular assist device
J L Skinner1, R C Bourge, J K Kirklin
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294-0007, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 6, 1997
Abstract:
An intracorporeal left ventricular assist device was placed as a bridge to cardiac transplantation in a 51-year-old man after an acute myocardial infarction. After 126 days of support, the left ventricular assist device malfunctioned. The pump, which had a tear in its pneumatic drive line, was successfully replaced.