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Early postoperative rupture of Heartware outflow graft: A case report
Author(s) -
Kemaloğlu Cemal,
Özçobanoğlu Salih,
Köksel Umut,
Erbasan Ozan,
Gölbaşı İlhan,
Türkay Cengiz,
Bayezid Ömer
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.14120
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac tamponade , ventricular assist device , heart failure , complication , tamponade , outflow , surgery , cardiology , heart disease , physics , meteorology
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.