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Successful HeartWare Bridge to Recovery in a 3-Year Old: A Game Changer?
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Successful HeartWare Bridge to Recovery in a 3-Year Old: A Game Changer?

Richard Kirk, Ed Peng, Andrew Woods, Julie Flett, Terry Hewitt, Massimo Griselli, Stephen Schueler, Neil Wrightson and Asif Hasan
The Annals of thoracic surgery, Vol.101(5), pp.1984-1987
01/05/2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.07.067
PMID: 27106437

Abstract

Anticoagulants - therapeutic use Biopsy Cardiomyopathy, Dilated - complications Child, Preschool Combined Modality Therapy Heart Failure - drug therapy Heart Failure - etiology Heart Failure - therapy Heart-Assist Devices - adverse effects Humans Imaging, Three-Dimensional Male Milrinone - therapeutic use Myocarditis - complications Myocardium - pathology Recovery of Function Sildenafil Citrate - therapeutic use Thrombosis - etiology Tomography, X-Ray Computed Vasodilator Agents - therapeutic use
We report a 3-year-old boy weighing 13.5 kg who presented with intractable cardiac failure resulting from myocarditis and was treated by implantation of a HeartWare (HVAD) device. He was discharged home with the device. His cardiac function subsequently recovered, and the device was decommissioned. We believe this to be the youngest HVAD recipient and the only child to have recovered and had the device decommissioned.

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