Early thrombus formation in patient with HeartWare left ventricular assist device presenting with acute heart failure

Ucar M., Karakas M. S., Bayrak M., ALTEKİN R. E., KÖKSEL U., BAYEZİD Ö.

JOURNAL OF THE SAUDI HEART ASSOCIATION, cilt.28, sa.1, ss.49-51, 2016 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 28 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.jsha.2015.06.003
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF THE SAUDI HEART ASSOCIATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.49-51
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Heart failure, Left ventricular assist device, Surgical treatment, Thrombus, MANAGEMENT
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Heart failure is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. Heart transplantation is still the gold standard therapy despite emerging treatment options. Due to the limited number of available donors, the use of ventricular assist devices has increased. However, increasing incidences of complications are observed with using these devices. In this article, surgical treatment of a huge mobile thrombus formation in an inflow cannula due to ineffective anticoagulation in a 59 year-old man who received a HeartWare ventricular assist device because of ischemic cardiomyopathy is presented. (C) 2015 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).