Permanent Left Ventricular Assistance for Outpatients through Surgical Implantation of a Modified Intra-aortic Balloon Pump

AUTOR(ES)

Phillips, Steven J.

RESUMO

There is a large population of patients in end-stage congestive heart failure who cannot be treated by means of conventional cardiac surgery, cardiac transplantation, or chronic catecholamine infusions. In 2 such patients, we provided permanent left ventricular assistance on an outpatient basis by surgically implanting a modified intra-aortic balloon pump. A Dacron-velour graft to the common iliac artery served as a covering for the extravascular portion of the balloon's pneumatic tubing, which was stabilized by routing it through the iliac crest. The tubing was then carried ventrally to exit through a stoma just above the inguinal ligament.

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