TOTAL SUPPORT OF THE CIRCULATION OF A PATIENT WITH POST-CARDIOTOMY STONE-HEART SYNDROME BY A PARTIAL ARTIFICIAL HEART (ALVAD) FOR 5 DAYS FOLLOWED BY HEART AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

  • J. C. Norman
  • , D. A. Cooley
  • , B. D. Kahan
  • , A. S. Keats
  • , E. K. Massin
  • , R. T. Solis
  • , W. E. Luper
  • , M. I. Brook
  • , T. Klima
  • , O. H. Frazier
  • , Jerriann Hacker
  • , J. M. Duncan
  • , C. C. Dacso
  • , D. S. Winston
  • , G. J. Reul

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Abstract

A patient with acute bacterial endocarditis in whom ischæmic contracture of the left ventricle (stone-heart syndrome) developed during aortic and mitral valve replacement had an emergency implantation of an intracorporeal partial artificial heart (an abdominal left-ventricular assist device or ALVAD). This device functioned as a total artificial heart for nearly 6 days, while a donor heart for transplantation was sought. The ALVAD was then removed, and the patient received allografts of a heart and a kidney. The transplanted heart functioned well, but the patient died 15 days later from gram-negative sepsis. There was no evidence of cardiac or renal allograft rejection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1125-1127
Number of pages3
JournalThe Lancet
Volume311
Issue number8074
DOIs
StatePublished - May 27 1978
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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