Rapid Development of Bleeding Esophageal Varices after Placement of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device

We describe a patient with compensated cirrhosis and portal hypertension who underwent continuous flow LVAD implantation. Shortly after LVAD implantation, the patient developed new onset bleeding esophageal varices and ultimately had a fatal outcome. Our experience suggests that even well-compensate...

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Autores principales: Majmudar, Kaushal, Northcutt, Michael, Gordon, Robert, Fimmel, Claus J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8410420
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description We describe a patient with compensated cirrhosis and portal hypertension who underwent continuous flow LVAD implantation. Shortly after LVAD implantation, the patient developed new onset bleeding esophageal varices and ultimately had a fatal outcome. Our experience suggests that even well-compensated cirrhotic patients with significant portal hypertension are at risk of variceal bleeding after LVAD placement.
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spelling pubmed-68752152019-11-28 Rapid Development of Bleeding Esophageal Varices after Placement of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Majmudar, Kaushal Northcutt, Michael Gordon, Robert Fimmel, Claus J. Case Reports Hepatol Case Report We describe a patient with compensated cirrhosis and portal hypertension who underwent continuous flow LVAD implantation. Shortly after LVAD implantation, the patient developed new onset bleeding esophageal varices and ultimately had a fatal outcome. Our experience suggests that even well-compensated cirrhotic patients with significant portal hypertension are at risk of variceal bleeding after LVAD placement. Hindawi 2019-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6875215/ /pubmed/31781429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8410420 Text en Copyright © 2019 Kaushal Majmudar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Rapid Development of Bleeding Esophageal Varices after Placement of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device
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title_short Rapid Development of Bleeding Esophageal Varices after Placement of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device
title_sort rapid development of bleeding esophageal varices after placement of continuous flow left ventricular assist device
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