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Severe anaemia and subcapital femur fracture in a patient with Left Ventricular Assist Device Heart Mate II: the cardiologist's management of this rare patient
Author(s) -
Gogas Bill D.,
Parissis John T.,
Filippatos Gerasimos S.,
Iliodromitis Efstathios K.,
Soultanis Konstantinos C.,
Kostopanagiotou Georgia G.,
Theodoropoulos Stergios P.,
Kremastinos Dimitrios T.,
Yacoub Magdi H.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
european journal of heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.149
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1879-0844
pISSN - 1388-9842
DOI - 10.1093/eurjhf/hfp090
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , technician , cardiology , ventricular assist device , femur , surgery , electrical engineering , engineering
The use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) has increased over the last decade because of the lack of healthy donor hearts. In this report we describe for the first time a patient with an LVAD Heart Mate II (HM II) implanted 6 months before admission, who initially suffered from severe anaemia and later on underwent a successful bipolar hip replacement owing to subcapital fracture of the right femur. The patient was managed successfully by a team approach, which included a cardiologist, anaesthesiologist, orthopaedic surgeon, and LVAD technician.