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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1820-1821
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Heart Transplantation in a Patient With a Left Ventricular Assist Device and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection

Christof Schmid, MD*,a, Michael Schneider, MDa, Christian Etz, MDa, Hans H. Scheld, MDa

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

Accepted for publication July 17, 2003.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Schmid, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Albert-Schweitzer-Str 33, Muenster 48149, Germany
schmid{at}uni-muenster.de

We report a patient who underwent implantation of a DeBakey left-ventricular assist device and developed a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus drive line infection on postoperative day 304. The patient was forwarded to urgent heart transplantation with a successful outcome.






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