Post-Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect Successfully Treated with Impella as Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation

Lauren Giudicatti; Benjamin Silbert; Xiao-Fang Xu; Anthony Putrino; Felicity Lee; Amit Shah; Robert Larbalestier; Karim Slimani; Andrew Laycock; Kaitlyn Lam

doi:10.1155/2022/5690844

Post-Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect Successfully Treated with Impella as Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation

Case Rep Cardiol. 2022 Jul 31:2022:5690844. doi: 10.1155/2022/5690844. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia.
² Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia.
⁴ PathWest, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia.

Abstract

A 63-year-old female presented late with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock. This was complicated by acute ventricular septal defect with large left-to-right shunt. An Impella CP was inserted on day seven with rapid haemodynamic improvement. This facilitated bridge to cardiac transplant on day twelve post-MI.

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Case Reports