Surgical treatment of outflow graft kinking complicated by external obstruction with a fibrin mass in a patient with LVAD.

Gaik Nersesian Karel M Van PraetAntonia van KampenNatalia SolowjowaVolkmar FalkEvgenij Potapov

Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2020)

We describe the case of a 51-year-old patient on LVAD support who developed significant OG kinking and external OG obstruction due to a fibrin mass causing severe stenosis. Both the OG kinking and external obstruction were eliminated via a left lateral thoracotomy.

Keyphrases

case report
left ventricular assist device
early onset
platelet rich plasma
coronary artery disease
transcatheter aortic valve implantation