Case report: Facilitating right heart recovery after durable LVAD implantation through repair of atrioventricular valves and RVAD implantation using tunneled Dacron grafts

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiovascular Medicine

Syed Sikandar Raza¹  K. Candis Jones-Ungerleider¹  Paul C. Tang² 

[1] Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, United States;Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, United States;Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States;

关键词: mitral regurgitation;    tricuspid regurgitation;    left ventricular assist device;    right ventricular assist device;    right heart failure;    right ventricular dysfunction;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fcvm.2023.1251837

 received in 2023-07-02, accepted in 2023-08-16,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Right ventricular assist device (RVAD) weaning is often an important goal for durable left ventricular assist device support. This may be facilitated by mitral and tricuspid repair as well as by minimizing the trauma of RVAD decannulation by using Dacron grafts.

【 授权许可】

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© 2023 Jones-Ungerleider, Raza and Tang.