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The First Clinical Use of Heart Mate Ii Left Ventricular Assist System in Croatia as a Bridge-to-Transplant: A Case Report

Mislav Planinc ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Željko Sutlić ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Davor Barić ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Jozica Šikić ; Department for Cardiovascular Disease, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Nikola Bradić ; Department of Anesthesiology, Reanimathology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Rudež ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Daniel Unić ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Ante Legac ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravka Jonjić ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Ruža Mrkonjić ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Zorana Čekol ; 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia

Sažetak

Left ventricular assist systems (LVAS) are widely accepted nowadays as a successful tool for bridging the patients with end-stage heart failure to heart transplantation (BTT). The second generations of axial-flow devices, such as the HeartMate II, provide a safe and reliable, as well as an effective hemodynamic support in such patients, offering them an improved quality of life; they are furthermore associated with a very low rate of device malfunction or infection requiring device change. We report here of our first three patients with the implanted HM II LVAS as a BTT .

Ključne riječi

heart failure; LVAD; dilatative cardiomyopathy

Hrčak ID:

66347

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/66347

Datum izdavanja:

11.3.2011.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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