Right Heart Failure in a Cardiac Allograft Following Remote Transvenous Lead Extraction

Martin van Zyl, MBBCh; Alan M. Sugrue, MBBCh; Samuel J. Asirvatham, MD; Gregory W. Barsness, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2019)

Right Heart Failure in a Cardiac Allograft Following Remote Transvenous Lead Extraction

Martin van Zyl, MBBCh,
Alan M. Sugrue, MBBCh,
Samuel J. Asirvatham, MD,
Gregory W. Barsness, MD

Affiliations

Martin van Zyl, MBBCh: Address for correspondence: Dr. Martin van Zyl, Mayo Clinic, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, Minnesota 55905.; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Alan M. Sugrue, MBBCh: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Samuel J. Asirvatham, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Gregory W. Barsness, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 4
pp. 573 – 575

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A heart transplant recipient presented with right heart failure. He had a history of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation and extraction before undergoing heart transplantation 4 years earlier. A large fistula was found between the left subclavian artery and vein. Following successful percutaneous fistula closure, symptoms and right ventricular function improved. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

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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