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We know that new generation left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), significantly reduce the mortality of patients in the treatment of advanced heart failure disease, compared to optimal medical therapy. Day by day, we treat more heart failure patients with LVADs. Patients that can be cured are on the rise. But this also causes us to struggle with more complications. In this article, we present a case of cardiac tamponade due to rupture that occurred in the outflow graft of HeartWare left ventricular assist device (HVAD), a complication encountered for the first time as far as we know.
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Tamponamento Cardíaco/etiologia , Insuficiência Cardíaca/cirurgia , Coração Auxiliar/efeitos adversos , Ventrículos do Coração , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Ruptura Espontânea , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy is being used increasingly in different areas. It has become an indispensable assistant to clinicians for hypoxic pulmonary disorders, cardiogenic shock, resuscitation, and during cardiac surgery. In this case report, we describe a patient who is bridged to successful cardiac retransplant under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy support after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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Reanimação Cardiopulmonar , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/terapia , Oxigenação por Membrana Extracorpórea , Transplante de Coração/efeitos adversos , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/diagnóstico por imagem , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/etiologia , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Recuperação de Função Fisiológica , Reoperação , Volume Sistólico , Fatores de Tempo , Resultado do Tratamento , Função Ventricular Esquerda , Função Ventricular Direita , Listas de EsperaRESUMO
Pneumopericardium is a rare cause of cardiac tamponade, and it is an extremely rare complication of liver transplant. Here, we present a patient with cryptogenic liver cirrhosis who experienced cardiac tamponade secondary to a tension pneumopericardium during the postoperative course after liver transplant.
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Tamponamento Cardíaco/etiologia , Cirrose Hepática/cirurgia , Transplante de Fígado/efeitos adversos , Pneumopericárdio/etiologia , Tamponamento Cardíaco/diagnóstico por imagem , Tamponamento Cardíaco/cirurgia , Humanos , Cirrose Hepática/diagnóstico , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Técnicas de Janela Pericárdica , Pneumopericárdio/diagnóstico por imagem , Pneumopericárdio/cirurgia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Heart failure is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. Heart transplantation is still the gold standard therapy despite emerging treatment options. Due to the limited number of available donors, the use of ventricular assist devices has increased. However, increasing incidences of complications are observed with using these devices. In this article, surgical treatment of a huge mobile thrombus formation in an inflow cannula due to ineffective anticoagulation in a 59 year-old man who received a HeartWare ventricular assist device because of ischemic cardiomyopathy is presented.