Intermittent left ventricular assist device inflow tract obstruction by prolapsing papillary muscle detected by multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT)

Pranjal Kumar Boruah; Dhiraj Baruah; Claudius Mahr; Nunzio Gaglianello; Kaushik Shahir

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.06.093

Intermittent left ventricular assist device inflow tract obstruction by prolapsing papillary muscle detected by multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT)

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Sep;176(1):e13-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.06.093. Epub 2014 Jul 9.

Authors

Pranjal Kumar Boruah¹, Dhiraj Baruah², Claudius Mahr², Nunzio Gaglianello², Kaushik Shahir²

Affiliations

¹ Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, PA, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.

PMID: 25065338
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.06.093

No abstract available

Keywords: Heart failure; Left ventricular assist device (LVAD); Mechanical circulatory support (MCS); Mechanical obstruction; Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT); Papillary muscle prolapse.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Heart-Assist Devices / adverse effects*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Multidetector Computed Tomography*
Papillary Muscles / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / surgery*