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  • Title: Suicide right ventricle after lung transplantation for pulmonary vascular disease.
    Author: Gangahanumaiah S, Scarr BC, Buckland MR, Pilcher DV, Paraskeva MA, McGiffin DC.
    Journal: J Card Surg; 2018 Jul; 33(7):412-415. PubMed ID: 29921031.
    Abstract:
    A 27-year-old female with Eisenmenger's syndrome underwent closure of a patent ductus arteriosus, closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect and mid muscular defect and bilateral lung transplantation. Her immediate postoperative course was complicated by severe right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction resulting in hemodynamic collapse, a condition described as suicide right ventricle. The patient was placed on central Veno-Arterial Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a bridge to the relief of RVOT obstruction which included a right ventricular outflow muscle resection and a right ventricle outflow tract patch. The patient made an uneventful recovery.
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