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Case Reports

Glenn Shunt Facilitated Weaning of Right Ventricular Mechanical Support

^a Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
^b Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland

Accepted for publication June 19, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Conte, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe St, Blalock 618, Baltimore, MD 21287 (Email: jconte{at}csurg.jhmi.jhu.edu).

Management of biventricular mechanical circulatory support patients can be complex and can require different systems for support of the right and left ventricles. We describe the use of a Glenn shunt to facilitate weaning from a right ventricular assist device in a patient with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy on biventricular mechanical circulatory support.