Case-Based Review of the Current Global Evidence Supporting Impella-Facilitated Complex and Complete Revascularization

Kalaivani Mahadevan, MBBS; Julian W. Strange, MD, MBChB

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2019)

Case-Based Review of the Current Global Evidence Supporting Impella-Facilitated Complex and Complete Revascularization

Kalaivani Mahadevan, MBBS,
Julian W. Strange, MD, MBChB

Affiliations

Kalaivani Mahadevan, MBBS: Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
Julian W. Strange, MD, MBChB: Address for correspondence: Dr. Julian W. Strange, Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol BS2 8HW, United Kingdom.; Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 5
pp. 869 – 872

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A 74-year-old male patient who was admitted with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, severe left ventricular impairment, severe mitral regurgitation, and full viability who was turned down for surgery underwent high-risk and indicated multivessel stenting with Impella (Abiomed) support. At 6-month follow-up he was angina free, with complete resolution of the mitral regurgitation. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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