Desperate times call for desperate measures: total artificial heart for a case of refractory heart failure
Anno:
2025
B.D, male, 46 years old, suffering from idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with advanced biventricular involvement, treated with current guideline-directed medical therapy, bearer of S-ICD, previous percutaneous mitral edge-to-edge repair. He accesses our ER for exacerbation of heart failure secondary to atrial fibrillation (AF). Within a few days, because the…