A rare cause of right heart failure after heart transplantation: right coronary cusp thrombosis
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2015
Yazarlar: Hatice Soner KEMAL, Serkan ERTUGAY, Çağatay ENGİN, Sanem NALBANTGİL, Tahir YAĞDI, Mustafa ÖZBARAN
TURK GOGUS KALP DAMAR CERRAHISI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2015, cilt 23, ss 343-345
DOI: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10857
Özet
Right heart failure and pump thrombosis are potentially life-threatening complications and major causes of morbidity following left ventricular assist device implantation. Herein, we report a case of 47-year-old male patient who had successful heart transplantation 20 months after left ventricular assist device implantation. The device-supported period was uneventful during follow-up, but right coronary cusp thrombosis occluding the right coronary artery resulted in right heart failure 11 days after heart transplantation.