Deployed but not irretrievable: A novel surgical off-pump technique for parachute device extraction

Gianluca Lucchese; Ronak Rajani; Tiffany Patterson; Stamatis Kapetanakis; Simon Redwood; Vinayak Bapat

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.11.150

Deployed but not irretrievable: A novel surgical off-pump technique for parachute device extraction

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Feb 1:204:66-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.11.150. Epub 2015 Nov 23.

Authors

Gianluca Lucchese¹, Ronak Rajani², Tiffany Patterson², Stamatis Kapetanakis², Simon Redwood², Vinayak Bapat³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
² Department of Cardiology, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: vnbapat@yahoo.com.

PMID: 26681538
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.11.150

No abstract available

Keywords: 3D transesophageal echocardiography; Cardiac computed tomography; Extraction; Heart failure; Parachute device; Percutaneous ventricular restoration.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Device Removal / methods*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Prosthesis Implantation / adverse effects*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnosis*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / surgery*

Grants and funding

FS/14/11/30526/BHF_/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom