• Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Jun 2014

    Case Reports

    A first step beyond traditional boundaries: destination therapy with the SynCardia total artificial heart.

    • Sotirios Spiliopoulos, Reiner Koerfer, and Gero Tenderich.
    • Department of Surgical Therapy of End-stage Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart and Vascular Center Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany sotirios.spiliopolos@ejk.de.
    • Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2014 Jun 1; 18 (6): 855-6.

    AbstractThe SynCardia total artificial heart is currently used as a bridge to transplantation therapy in cases of irreversible, acute or chronic, biventricular heart failure. We describe the implementation of this technology in the context of destination therapy in a patient with an end-stage heart failure on grounds of primary amyloidosis.© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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