Charles Explorer logo
🇬🇧

Mechanical cerebral thrombectomy in a BiVAD patient awaiting cardiac transplantation

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Second Faculty of Medicine, Third Faculty of Medicine |
2017

Abstract

IMAGES IN CARDIAC SURGERY / Mechanical cerebral thrombectomy has been used to treat cardiac surgical patients following an acute cerebral embolus. We present the images of a successful cerebral mechanical thrombectomy in a patient on biventricular assist support (BiVAD) awaiting cardiac transplantation.