Fenestrated Fontan-like circulation under durable left-ventricular assist device support in fulminant myocarditis.
Chiho TokunagaAtsushi IguchiHiroyuki NakajimaJun HayashiAkitoshi TakazawaMasatoshi AkiyamaAkihiro YoshitakePublished in: Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs (2022)
Fulminant myocarditis is a fatal development from profound biventricular heart failure and often requires both right- and left-ventricular assistance to maintain hemodynamics, even at the risk of increased mortality and morbidity. Here, we present a 42-year-old female with profound biventricular failure due to fulminant myocarditis, resolved by an isolated durable left-ventricular assist device support under a fenestrated, Fontan-like circulation and managed low-pulmonary vascular resistance.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular assist device
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- intellectual disability
- liver failure
- pulmonary hypertension
- cardiovascular events
- acute myocardial infarction
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- risk factors
- mitral valve
- autism spectrum disorder
- type diabetes
- acute coronary syndrome
- percutaneous coronary intervention