Right ventricular failure after left ventricular assist device implantation with concomitant pulmonary embolectomy needing right ventricular assist device support in a patient with terminal heart failure and asymptomatic pulmonary thrombus

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 154-155

  Stepanenko, Alexander ^a   Potapov, Evgenij V ^a   Krabatsch, Thomas ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic pulmonary thrombus; Left ventricular assist device; Right ventricular assist device; Terminal heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PHENPROCOUMON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMBOLECTOMY; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEMOPTYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; IMPLANTATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; TERMINAL DISEASE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CIRCULATORY ARREST, DEEP HYPOTHERMIA INDUCED; EMBOLECTOMY; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; STERNOTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 74849083749     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.215962     Document Type: Article

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