ArticleCureus2024
Complications of Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Case Study of Recurrent Bacteremia and Implications for Infection Management.
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- Enterococcal Infections in Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients: Two Clinical Cases and Systematic Review.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- The role of continuous in situ targeted antimicrobials in the successful treatment of extensively-drug resistantJHLT open · 2026Article
- Bundled management improves clinical outcome and reduces healthcare cost in multidrug-resistant bacterial infections: a retrospective study.American journal of translational research · 2026Article
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Abstract
Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical condition with symptoms that result from ineffective ejection of blood due to functional or structural impairment of the heart. The most common causes of HF include ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction (MI), hypertension, and valvular heart disease (VHD). As HF progresses to advanced stages, interventions, like left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), become essential, especially for patients ineligible for heart transplantation. However, LVADs carry substantial infection risks, particularly for bacteremia, which complicates management, patient morbidity, and patient outcomes in some cases. Our case involves a 61-year-old male with a medical history of American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) stage D heart failure secondary to non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, a history of biventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation, and an LVAD as destination therapy who experienced recurrent episodes of LVAD-associated infection. Post-implantation, he developed repeated driveline infections with Methicillin-resistant
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