Pulsatile arterial blood pressure mimicking aortic valve opening during continuous-flow LVAD support: a case report.
Matthias PaprotnyFrank RuschitzkaBernd LüdersMarkus J WilhelmRaed AserDominique BettexAndreas J FlammerAlain RudigerStephan WinnikPublished in: Journal of cardiothoracic surgery (2019)
We present this interesting didactic case to highlight caveats during the early postoperative period after LVAD implantation. Moreover, this case demonstrates that careful and differentiated observation of the arterial blood pressure waveform provides crucial information in this unique and growing patient population of continuous-flow LVAD support.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- blood pressure
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- left ventricular assist device
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- aortic valve replacement
- aortic stenosis
- hypertensive patients
- heart rate
- patients undergoing
- case report
- blood glucose
- coronary artery disease
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- ejection fraction