“The Right Stuff”: Using a Caval Stent Valve to Mitigate the Effect of Right Heart Failure in LVAD Patients

Right heart failure following left ventricular assist device implantation is one of the major challenges in patients suffering from advanced heart failure. There is still no ideal right-sided support system available. Here we describe the implantation of a stent valve at the inferior cavoatrial junction to protect liver and kidney during right heart failure.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 16, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: R.R. Gonzalez, A.A. Grant, E. DeMarchena, A. Klima, M. Armor, A. Badiye, M. Loebe, M. Cohen, A. Ghodsizad Tags: 920 Source Type: research