Repair of left ventricular driveline tear in a SynCardia-total artificial heart patient.

Sotirios Spiliopoulos,Magda Tenderich,Dilek Guersoy,Guenes Dogan,Reiner Koerfer,Gero Tenderich

Repair of left ventricular driveline tear in a SynCardia-total artificial heart patient.

2014

Sotirios Spiliopoulos
Magda Tenderich
Dilek Guersoy
Guenes Dogan
Reiner Koerfer
Gero Tenderich

We report the case of a 64-year old Caucasian male patient with a tear of the left ventricular driveline just above the driveline-air tube junction. We describe the repair technique and the necessary set of tools.

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Internal medicine
Surgery
Artificial heart
Cardiology
Heart failure
Cardiac surgery
Heart-Assist Devices
Cardiothoracic surgery
Medicine
prosthesis design
male patient

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