| Literature DB >> 9885107 |
E Beyer1, C Vatcharasiritham, M Sweeney, P Przybylowski, R Delgado, B Radovancević, O H Frazier.
Abstract
A 30-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy underwent heterotopic heart transplantation, concurrently with surgical reduction of the native left ventricle, a mitral valvuloplasty, and an apical thrombectomy. Postoperatively, the patient had hemodynamic instability that was refractory to conventional medical therapy. Temporary sequential pacing of the 2 hearts was used to induce timed counterpulsation, which resulted in marked hemodynamic improvement. To the best of our knowledge, this case involves the 1st report in the English-language literature of clinical usage of paced, linked counter-pulsation to treat acute hemodynamic compromise early after heterotopic heart transplantation.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9885107 PMCID: PMC325576
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tex Heart Inst J ISSN: 0730-2347