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Symptoms of massive cardiac tamponade during support of biventricular assist device.
Typical symptoms of cardiac tamponade are jugular venous distension, pulsus paradoxus, hypotension, and rest dyspnea. However, these clinical symptoms can be masked in patients with ventricular assist device and even more in patients supported with a biventricular-HeartWare ventricular assist device. Hereby, we report the case of a 30-year-old man supported with a biventricular-HeartWare ventricular assist device, who underwent a computed tomography scan due to suspect of ventricular assist device thrombosis. In the first scan, no pericardial effusion could be detected; however, a flow-limiting formation suggestive of a thrombus was localized in the outflow graft of the right ventricular assist device immediately before the anastomosis with pulmonary artery. Lysis therapy was initiated. On the same day, two episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation without hemodynamic instability had to be promptly treated with antiarrhythmic drugs and electrical defibrillations. On the same day, a second computed tomography scan showed a massive pericardial effusion that required an emergency resternotomy.
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