Abstract：
:We describe the case of a 35-year-old man with severe, dilated idiopathic cardiomyopathy who was placed on the waiting list for cardiac transplantation. While awaiting transplantation, his heart failure decompensated to such a degree that left ventricular assist device support was necessary. He did well on device support until a pump-pocket infection (methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci) developed at 10 months. At that time, echocardiograms showed normal heart size and an ejection fraction of 0.45 to 0.49 without pump support. The pump was, therefore, explanted emergently. The patient has remained clinically stable with preserved ventricular function nearly 13 years after the explantation procedure.
journal_name
Tex Heart Inst Jjournal_title
Texas Heart Institute journalauthors
Demirozu ZT,Frazier OHsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-01-01 00:00:00pages
268-70issue
2eissn
0730-2347issn
1526-6702journal_volume
39pub_type
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