1. Post-traumatic ventricular septal defect: a rare indication for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to transplant
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Juan Manuel Escudier-Villa, Maria Alejandra Restrepo-Cordoba, Luis Alonso-Pulpón, Manuel Gómez-Bueno, Javier Segovia, Evaristo Castedo, and Francisco José Hernández-Pérez
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Heart transplantation ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Bridge to transplant ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Cardiac Rupture ,Case Report ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) ,Surgery ,ventricular septal defect ,03 medical and health sciences ,traumatic ,surgical procedures, operative ,0302 clinical medicine ,Blunt ,030228 respiratory system ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Complication ,business - Abstract
A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a rare complication of blunt chest trauma. This report presents the case of a 44-year-old man who developed a VSD as a result of high-energy closed chest trauma. We describe the initial surgical and medical management of the cardiac rupture. After failed repair surgery, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was used as a bridge to heart transplantation. We discuss the successful use of ECMO to improve the prognosis results in this rare and complex entity.
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- 2017
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