Heart Failing Jehovah Witness Patient Successfully Treated by Minimally-Invasive Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation without any Blood Transfusions
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Heart Failing Jehovah Witness Patient Successfully Treated by Minimally-Invasive Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation without any Blood Transfusions
What sounds like a headline of a newspaper is the title of a case report regarding cardiac surgery in a high-risk patient, namely, a patient undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation for heart failure treatment. The authors were courageous enough to implant a LVAD in a Jehovah witness, a Christian denomination whose members categorically refuse blood transfusions. They have ...
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Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation without the use of any blood products is considered as a challenge. We present a 48-year-old patient (175 cm, 75 kg, body mass index 24.5 kg/m2) who was admitted to our clinic due to end-stage heart failure. The patient is a Jehovah's witness. He declined full blood transfusion as well as use of coagulation factors. Therefore, we interdisciplin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2194-7635,2194-7643
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1565252