Minimally invasive LVAD implantation for advanced heart failure: a single-center retrospective analysis and the promise of minimally invasive approaches
Wang Qingpeng, Cai Jie, Yu Wenjun, Wang Wei, Chen Xing, Liu Jinping · 2025
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The authors report their first experience with a gentler way to implant a heart pump in patients with end-stage heart failure. Instead of opening the breastbone, surgeons worked through the left chest. They reviewed the records of three men treated over four months in 2024. Two also had a small heart hole closed or a pouch tied off in the same operation. All three operations finished without deaths or a switch to the open approach.
Scans afterward showed smaller heart chambers, better pumping, and no major valve leaks in all three men. Breathing support lasted one to five days and intensive care three to seven days. No one died or suffered pump clots, stroke, or bleeding needing another operation. One man had a brief rhythm problem that medicine settled. The authors call the approach feasible and safe in chosen patients, while stressing the small numbers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wang Qingpeng, Cai Jie, Yu Wenjun, Wang Wei, Chen Xing, Liu Jinping |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |