Case report: Facilitating right heart recovery after durable LVAD implantation through repair of atrioventricular valves and RVAD implantation using tunneled Dacron grafts

K. Candis Jones-Ungerleider; Syed Sikandar Raza; Paul C. Tang; Paul C. Tang

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2023.1251837

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (Sep 2023)

Case report: Facilitating right heart recovery after durable LVAD implantation through repair of atrioventricular valves and RVAD implantation using tunneled Dacron grafts

K. Candis Jones-Ungerleider,
Syed Sikandar Raza,
Paul C. Tang,
Paul C. Tang

Affiliations

K. Candis Jones-Ungerleider: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Syed Sikandar Raza: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Paul C. Tang: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Paul C. Tang: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1251837
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10

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Right ventricular assist device (RVAD) weaning is often an important goal for durable left ventricular assist device support. This may be facilitated by mitral and tricuspid repair as well as by minimizing the trauma of RVAD decannulation by using Dacron grafts.

Published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

ISSN: 2297-055X (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine

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