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Right ventricular infarction during left ventricular assist system support.

L R McBride·R Ruggiero·K A Powers·D A Moroney·M T Swartz
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Left ventricular assist devices are frequently used to bridge patients to cardiac transplantation. As this experience grows, new and unanticipated complications will occur. This report describes a 50-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy being bridged to cardiac transplantation who suffered an acute right ventricular infarction during the interval of support.

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L R McBride, R Ruggiero, K A Powers, D A Moroney, M T Swartz. 1998. Right ventricular infarction during left ventricular assist system support.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00006-x

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