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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:839-841
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Right Ventricular Infarction During Left Ventricular Assist System Support

Lawrence R. McBride, MD, Renato Ruggiero, MD, Karen A. Powers, RN, Debra A. Moroney, RN, Marc T. Swartz, BA

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Accepted for publication October 19, 1997.

Dr McBride, Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, 3635 Vista Ave at Grand Blvd, PO Box 15250, St. Louis, MO 63110-0250 (e-mail: mcbridlm@wpogate.slu.edu).

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.




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