Left Ventricular Assist Device With a Left Atrial Inflow Cannula for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Omid Kiamanesh, MD; Kate Rankin, MBBS; Filio Billia, MD, PhD; Mitesh V. Badiwala, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Nov 2020)

Left Ventricular Assist Device With a Left Atrial Inflow Cannula for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Omid Kiamanesh, MD,
Kate Rankin, MBBS,
Filio Billia, MD, PhD,
Mitesh V. Badiwala, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Omid Kiamanesh, MD: Division of Cardiology, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Kate Rankin, MBBS: Division of Cardiology, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Filio Billia, MD, PhD: Division of Cardiology, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mitesh V. Badiwala, MD, PhD: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Address for correspondence: Dr. Mitesh V. Badiwala, Toronto General Hospital, 4N-472, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 13
pp. 2090 – 2094

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Patients with restrictive or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are often ineligible for a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) due to the risk of suction events with a small left ventricular cavity size and left ventricular inflow cannula. We describe an alternative LVAD configuration using a left atrial inflow cannula as a bridge to transplantation in an adult with HCM. (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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