La Francesca Saverio, Palanichamy Nanthini, Kar Biswajit, Gregoric Igor D
Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2006;33(4):490-1.
Advanced heart failure may be refractory despite aggressive support with inotropic agents and intra-aortic balloon pumping. Implantable left ventricular assist devices are increasingly being used as bridges to cardiac transplantation or as destination therapy because of the limited availability of donor organs. We report the 1st use of the TandemHeart percutaneous ventricular assist device as a short-term bridge to cardiac transplantation.
尽管使用了强心剂和主动脉内球囊反搏进行积极支持,晚期心力衰竭仍可能难以治疗。由于供体器官供应有限,可植入式左心室辅助装置越来越多地被用作心脏移植的桥梁或作为终末期治疗手段。我们报告了首次将TandemHeart经皮心室辅助装置用作心脏移植的短期桥梁。