Ventricular assist device use in single ventricle congenital heart disease.
Waldemar F CarloChet R VillaAshwin K LalDavid L MoralesPublished in: Pediatric transplantation (2017)
As VAD have become an effective therapy for end-stage heart failure, their application in congenital heart disease has increased. Single ventricle congenital heart disease introduces unique physiologic challenges for VAD use. However, with regard to the mixed clinical results presented within this review, we suggest that patient selection, timing of implant, and center experience are all important contributors to outcome. This review focuses on the published experience of VAD use in single ventricle patients and details physiologic challenges and novel approaches in this growing pediatric and adult population.
Keyphrases
- congenital heart disease
- heart failure
- end stage renal disease
- left ventricular
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- case report
- pulmonary hypertension
- randomized controlled trial
- pulmonary artery
- mitral valve
- atrial fibrillation
- systematic review
- coronary artery
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- cardiac resynchronization therapy