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ArticleJournal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs2016

Successful left ventricular assist device re-implantation with omental covering for MDRP device infection.

Hitoshi Inafuku, Yukio Kuniyoshi, Satoshi Yamashiro, Yuichi Totsuka, Minoru Ono

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Article in Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Journal of Artificial Organs 2016: the year in review : Journal of Artificial Organs Editorial Committee.Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs · 2017
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  2. Successful management of apical abscess after Nipro left ventricular assisted device explantation by removal of apical cuff and omentopexy.Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hitoshi InafukuDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of the Ryukyus, 207, Nishihara, 903-0215, Okinawa, Japan. hitoshiinafuku@yahoo.co.jp.
Yukio KuniyoshiDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of the Ryukyus, 207, Nishihara, 903-0215, Okinawa, Japan.
Satoshi YamashiroDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of the Ryukyus, 207, Nishihara, 903-0215, Okinawa, Japan.
Yuichi TotsukaDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of the Ryukyus, 207, Nishihara, 903-0215, Okinawa, Japan.
Minoru OnoDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyou-ku, 113-8655, Tokyo, Japan.
University of the Ryukyus · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case of paracorporeal left ventricular assist device (p-LVAD)-related infection, caused by multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosae (MDRP), and successfully treated by p-LVAD re-implantation with omental covering. A 59-year-old man underwent p-LVAD implantation and coronary artery bypass grafting after percutaneous cardiopulmonary support and intra-aortic balloon pumping for cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction. Then, he was registered for heart transplantation. He suffered from blood stream infection causative organism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2 months after that operation. He underwent re-median sternotomy and open drainage, 15 months after the p-LVAD implantation. However, he suffered from septic shock due to MDRP. He underwent p-LVAD re-implantation under hypothermic circulatory arrest and iodine gauze packing, followed by omental covering of the all artificial materials in his body 10 days after that operation. Soon after that, the infection was well controlled and the intravenous antibiotics could be discontinued 2 months after that operation. He successfully underwent heart transplantation, 17 months after that procedure. We concluded that p-LVAD re-implantation with omental covering is seemed to be useful in the treatment of massive device infection. This procedure might be a novel treatment for severe VAD-related infection until heart transplantation.

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Prosthesis ImplantationReoperationDrug Resistance, MultipleHeart-Assist DevicesHeart FailureHeart TransplantationHumansIntra-Aortic Balloon PumpingMaleMiddle AgedMyocardial InfarctionOmentumPseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas InfectionsShock, CardiogenicTreatment OutcomeBridge to transplantationMulti-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosaeOmentumParacorporeal left ventricular assist device

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PMID26740211
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