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Case Reports
. 1978 May 27;1(8074):1125-7.
doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(78)90301-x.

Total support of the circulation of a patient with post-cardiotomy stone-heart syndrome by a partial artificial heart (ALVAD) for 5 days followed by heart and kidney transplantation

J C Norman, M I Brook, D A Cooley, T Klima, B D Kahan, O H Frazier, A S Keats, J Hacker, E K Massin, J M Duncan, R T Solis, C C Dacso, W E Luper, D S Winston, G J Reul
Case Reports

Total support of the circulation of a patient with post-cardiotomy stone-heart syndrome by a partial artificial heart (ALVAD) for 5 days followed by heart and kidney transplantation

J C Norman et al. Lancet. .

Abstract

A patient with acute bacterial endocarditis in whom ischaemic contracture of the left ventricle (stone-heart syndrome) developed during aortic and mitral valve replacement had an emergency implantation of an intracorporeal partial artificial heart (an abdominal left-ventricular assist device of ALVAD). This device functioned as a total artificial heart for nearly 6 days, while a donor heart for transplantation was sought. The ALVAD was then removed, and the patient received allografts of a heart and a kidney. The transplanted heart functioned well, but the patient died 15 days later from gram-negative sepsis. There was no evidence of cardiac or renal allograft rejection.

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