Nonstandard usage of a left ventricular assist device in a patient with severe heart failure complicated by pulmonary artery thrombosis - case report

BACKGROUND: Heart failure complicated by pulmonary embolism is an extremely rare condition described in the literature. We report a case of very young patient with advanced heart failure against the background of dilated cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology with the presence of blood clots in both ven...

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Autores principales: Pacholewicz, Jerzy, Leonik, Szymon, Sojka, Maciej, Nadziakiewicz, Paweł
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7271499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32493377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01169-0
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author Pacholewicz, Jerzy
Leonik, Szymon
Sojka, Maciej
Nadziakiewicz, Paweł
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Sojka, Maciej
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description BACKGROUND: Heart failure complicated by pulmonary embolism is an extremely rare condition described in the literature. We report a case of very young patient with advanced heart failure against the background of dilated cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology with the presence of blood clots in both ventricles. CASE PRESENTATION: The course of treatment was complicated by acute pulmonary embolism. In emergency setting the patient was qualified for combine surgery pulmonary embolization and implantation of a continuous flow pump as a bridge for heart transplantation. The post-operative course is described in detail as well as reimplantation of the pump due to early thrombosis. CONCLUSIONS: Performed surgical procedures combined with alteration in anticoagulant drugs was sufficient to stabilize the clinical condition.
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spelling pubmed-72714992020-06-08 Nonstandard usage of a left ventricular assist device in a patient with severe heart failure complicated by pulmonary artery thrombosis - case report Pacholewicz, Jerzy Leonik, Szymon Sojka, Maciej Nadziakiewicz, Paweł J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Heart failure complicated by pulmonary embolism is an extremely rare condition described in the literature. We report a case of very young patient with advanced heart failure against the background of dilated cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology with the presence of blood clots in both ventricles. CASE PRESENTATION: The course of treatment was complicated by acute pulmonary embolism. In emergency setting the patient was qualified for combine surgery pulmonary embolization and implantation of a continuous flow pump as a bridge for heart transplantation. The post-operative course is described in detail as well as reimplantation of the pump due to early thrombosis. CONCLUSIONS: Performed surgical procedures combined with alteration in anticoagulant drugs was sufficient to stabilize the clinical condition. BioMed Central 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7271499/ /pubmed/32493377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01169-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_short Nonstandard usage of a left ventricular assist device in a patient with severe heart failure complicated by pulmonary artery thrombosis - case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7271499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32493377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01169-0
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