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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Mar 2014
Case ReportsExplantation of a CircuLite left ventricular assist device without removal of the inflow cannula: how to do it?
- Sarah Sainte, Marc Gewillig, Walter Droogne, Johan Van Cleemput, Johan Vanhaecke, Bart Meyns, and Filip Rega.
- Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2014 Mar 1; 18 (3): 393-5.
AbstractAs the incidence of heart failure rises and given the shortage of donor organs, left ventricular assist device implantation offers a viable therapy in patients with end-stage heart disease. The CircuLite Synergy™ device is a less invasive support device for Intermacs class 4 heart failure patients. We report the first case of successful weaning from the CircuLite Synergy™ pump and propose our surgical technique to explant the device while leaving the inflow cannula in situ.
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