Total artificial heart implantation for biventricular failure due to eosinophilic myocarditis

Masashi Kawabori; Chitaru Kurihara; Yair Miller; Kent A. Heck; Roberta C. Bogaev; Andrew B. Civitello; William E. Cohn; O. H. Frazier; Jeffrey A. Morgan

doi:10.1007/s10047-017-0954-9

Total artificial heart implantation for biventricular failure due to eosinophilic myocarditis

Masashi Kawabori^*, Chitaru Kurihara, Yair Miller, Kent A. Heck, Roberta C. Bogaev, Andrew B. Civitello, William E. Cohn, O. H. Frazier, Jeffrey A. Morgan

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Abstract

Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a condition of unknown etiology characterized by proliferation of eosinophils and their infiltration into tissues. Although cardiac involvement is rare, eosinophilic myocarditis can lead to life-threating fulminant congestive heart failure. Treatment of patients with eosinophilic myocarditis is challenging as heart failure can be caused by biventricular dysfunction. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature describing a patient with acute severe biventricular heart failure caused by eosinophilic myocarditis with mural left ventricular apical thrombus who was successfully treated with implantation of a total artificial heart as a bridge to heart transplant.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	266-269
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Artificial Organs
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10047-017-0954-9
State	Published - Sep 1 2017

Keywords

Artificial organs
Cardiomyopathy
Circulatory support device
Heart failure

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Medicine (miscellaneous)
Biomaterials
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Total artificial heart implantation for biventricular failure due to eosinophilic myocarditis

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