-
Case Reports
Mitral Valve Compression Induced Hypoxemia After Left Ventricular Assist Device Surgery: A Case Report.
- Hisham Hosny, Hesham Hassan, Nicholas Lees, and Andre Simon.
- From the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
- A A Pract. 2019 Mar 1; 12 (5): 151-154.
AbstractBlood flow obstruction of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is not uncommon. Causes of flow obstructions could be prepump, intrapump, and postpump. Clinical and echocardiographic parameters of LVAD obstruction vary substantially, ranging from being completely asymptomatic with unchanged functional status, normal filling pressures to frank cardiogenic shock. In the current case report, we present hypoxemia as an early presentation of LVAD inflow obstruction in the early postimplantation period in the absence of respiratory cause for hypoxemia.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..