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- Title
Oxygenator in short-term LVAD circuit: a rescue in post-LVAD pulmonary complications.
- Authors
Mohite, Prashant N.; Patil, Nikhil P.; Popov, Aron-Frederik; Bahrami, Toufan; Simon, Andre R.
- Abstract
Pulmonary complications after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, though infrequent, can be potentially catastrophic. A 62-year-old female with cardiogenic shock, supported on short-term LVAD, developed pulmonary oedema. An oxygenator was introduced into the LVAD circuit, which improved the gas exchange and, eventually, after weaning off the oxygenator, the patient received long-term LVAD. The introduction of an oxygenator into the short-term LAVD circuit is a lifesaving manoeuvre in such a situation. It offers freedom of introducing and removing the oxygenator into the LVAD circuit without opening the chest and competing for LVAD flow.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of pulmonary edema; EXTRACORPOREAL membrane oxygenation; LEFT heart ventricle; OXYGENATORS; HEART assist devices; DILATED cardiomyopathy
- Publication
Perfusion, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 7, p608
- ISSN
0267-6591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0267659115627691