Saito Shunsuke, Toda Koichi, Miyagawa Shigeru, Yoshikawa Yasushi, Hata Hiroki, Domae Keitaro, Matsuura Ryohei, Sawa Yoshiki
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
J Artif Organs. 2018 Sep;21(3):356-358. doi: 10.1007/s10047-018-1016-7. Epub 2018 Jan 12.
Intestinal complication associated with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation is not rare, and sometimes results in serious condition of patients, if occurred. We report a rare case in which remaining foreign body after LVAD explantation resulted in colonic fistula 14 years after LVAD explantation.
与左心室辅助装置(LVAD)植入相关的肠道并发症并不罕见,如果发生,有时会导致患者病情严重。我们报告了一例罕见病例,LVAD植入后14年,LVAD取出后残留异物导致结肠瘘。