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Right ventricular infarction during left ventricular assist system support
L R McBride1, R Ruggiero, K A Powers
1Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, Missouri 63110-0250, USA. mcbridlm@wpogate.slu.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 4, 1998
Abstract:
Left ventricular assist devices are frequently used to bridge patients to cardiac transplantation. As this experience grows, new and unanticipated complications will occur. This report describes a 50-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy being bridged to cardiac transplantation who suffered an acute right ventricular infarction during the interval of support.