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Case report and review of the literature: the utilisation of a ventricular assist device as bridge to recovery for anthracycline-induced ventricular dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2017

Diane Krasnopero ,
Alfred Asante-Korang ,
Jeffrey Jacobs ,
Stacie Stapleton ,
Jennifer Carapellucci ,
Mathew Dotson  and
Gary Stapleton
Diane Krasnopero*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Alfred Asante-Korang
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Jeffrey Jacobs
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Stacie Stapleton
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorder Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Jennifer Carapellucci
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Mathew Dotson
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Gary Stapleton
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: D. Krasnopero, DNP, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital 601 5th Street South, Suite 206, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, United States of America. Tel: 727 767 3333; Fax: 727 767 8990; E-mail: dkrasno1@jhmi.edu
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Abstract

Ventricular assist devices are used in children with heart failure as a bridge to myocardial recovery or cardiac transplantation. Anthracyclines cause cardiac toxicity and may result in acute or long-term cardiac failure. We describe the use of a ventricular assist device as a bridge to recovery in a child with severe acute anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy, and we review the associated literature. A 6-year-old girl was treated for acute myeloblastic leukaemia with daunorubicin and mitoxantrone. After 2 weeks her final dose of chemotherapy, her Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction decreased to 21%. Despite initiation of medical therapy, she had continued deterioration of left ventricular function and developed evidence of poor end-organ perfusion. She was not a candidate for cardiac transplantation, as the post-transplant immune suppression therapy would put her at risk for recurrence of her malignancy. We placed her on a short-term ventricular assist device as a bridge to ultimately placing her on a long-term ventricular assist device versus continuing medical therapy. Her left ventricular ejection fraction improved to 55% 24 days after ventricular assist device insertion. She was separated from the ventricular assist device 26 days after its insertion. She was discharged home 29 days later and is now 28 months after ventricular assist device implantation with stable ventricular function, as documented by a left ventricular ejection fraction of 55%, and normal end organ function. This case is one of the only reports known describing successful use of a short-term ventricular assist device as a bridge to recovery in a child with severe acute anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity.

Keywords

Ventricular assist devicecardiotoxicitychemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathysurgery
Type
Brief Report
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , March 2018 , pp. 471 - 475
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© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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