Successful ventricular assist device placement in transposition of the great arteries with pulmonary hypertension

Navin Rajagopalan; David C Booth; Enrique Diaz-Guzman; Charles W Hoopes

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.08.062

Successful ventricular assist device placement in transposition of the great arteries with pulmonary hypertension

Ann Thorac Surg. 2013 Feb;95(2):e47. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.08.062.

Authors

Navin Rajagopalan¹, David C Booth, Enrique Diaz-Guzman, Charles W Hoopes

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA. n.rajagopalan@uky.edu

PMID: 23336917
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.08.062

Abstract

The use of ventricular assist devices in patients with complex congenital heart disease has not been well described. We present a case of successful ventricular assist device support in a 38-year-old man with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries and severe secondary pulmonary hypertension.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Heart-Assist Devices*
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / complications*
Hypertension, Pulmonary / surgery*
Male
Remission Induction
Transposition of Great Vessels / complications*
Transposition of Great Vessels / surgery