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J. Heart Lung Transplant. · Jul 2009
Case ReportsVentricular assist device application with the intermediate use of a membrane oxygenator as a bridge to pediatric heart transplantation.
- Luis Garcia-Guereta, Javier Cabo, Pedro de la Oliva, Miguel Angel Villar, Lucia Deiros Bronte, Luis Goldman, and Michael Hübler.
- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain. lguereta@arrakis.es
- J. Heart Lung Transplant. 2009 Jul 1;28(7):740-2.
AbstractExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation and ventricular assist devices are currently used for the treatment of severe heart failure as a bridge to transplantation. The use of ventricular assist devices is limited by respiratory failure. We report a patient with severe heart failure and respiratory failure who was successfully bridged to transplantation, initially with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and afterwards with an EXCOR biventricular assist device (Berlin Heart AG, Berlin, Germany) and a membrane oxygenator (Jostra Quadrox D, Maquet Cardiopulmonary, AG Hirrlingen, Germany) intercalated in the outflow cannula of the left pump.
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