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www.elsevier.com/locate/ejctsracic Surgery 40 (2011) 268European Journal of Cardio-thoDownloaded from https://acImages in cardio-thoracic surgeryImplanted CardioWest-t total artificial heart: three-dimensional computedtomography reconstruction§Antonio Loforte a,*, Andrea Vallone b, Paola Lilla Della Monica a, Francesco Musumeci aaDepartment of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, ItalybDepartment of Radiology, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, ItalyReceived 4 August 2010; received in revised form 28 October 2010; accepted 4 November 2010; Available online 16 December 2010ademic.Keywords: Congestive heart failure; Total artificial heart; Heart Transplantation ou[()TD$FIG] p.com/ejcts/article/40/1/2A 38-year-old man underwent a CardioWest-t totalartificial heart (TAH-t; SynCardia, Tucson, AZ, USA) implan-tation for treatment of end-stage heart failure due toidiopathic dilative cardiomyopathy (Fig. 1). The patient wasdischarged on Berlin Heart CardioWest-t driver. He has beenon support for 708 days and is waiting for transplantation.Fig. 1. Post-implantation 3D computed tomography (CT) scan (multidetectorCT dual source — 64 slices, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) reconstruction of theCardioWest-t total artificial heart (TAH) showing the satisfactory position ofthe device in the chest of the patient (Video 1) (patient consensus wasobtained).The left artificial ventricle is connected via the left atrial inflow connector tothe left atrium, and via the aortic outflow cannula to the aorta. The rightartificial ventricle is connected via the right atrial inflow connector to the rightatrium and via the pulmonary artery outflow cannula to the pulmonary artery.The two driveline conduits are tunneled through the chest wall.After rethoracotomy for bleeding of the patient, the 3D CT scan evaluationshowed no blood leak or torsion and kinking of both atria and great vessels, andthe satisfactory position of the device components as well.§ This report was carried out within the PhD Program in ‘Transplantation’awarded by Rome Tor Vergata University, Italy, in cooperation with theDeutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Germany.* Corresponding author. Address: Department of Cardiac Surgery and Trans-plantation, S. Camillo Hospital, P.za C. Forlanini n.1, 00151 Rome, Italy.Tel.: +39 06 5870 4401; fax: +39 06 5870 4706.E-mail address: antonioloforte@yahoo.it (A. Loforte).1010-7940/$ — see front matter # 2010 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Sdoi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.01768/601485 by Biblioteche biomediche Università di Torino user on 10 April 2023Appendix A. Supplementary dataSupplementary data associated with this article (Video 1) can be found, inthe online version, at doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.017.urgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Implanted CardioWest-t total artificial heart: three-dimensional computed tomography reconstruction

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Implanted CardioWest-t total artificial heart: three-dimensional computed tomography reconstruction

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