Acute non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia after implantation of an left ventricular assist device

Abstract

Artificial left ventricle is increasingly used to treat patients with end-stage heart failure. Our report is devoted to a rare complication of cardiac surgical practice, but with an extremely high mortality rate – acute non-occlusive mesenteric intestinal ischemia.

Keywords

• non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia
• chronic heart failure
• left ventricular assist device