Right ventricular infarction and mitral stenosis: a resuscitation challenge
Abstract
We report the case of a 49-year-old woman who experienced an inferior myocardial infarction with right ventricular extension, poorly tolerated, partly due to a severe rheumatic mitral stenosis discovered during the hospitalization. Following an initial emergent mechanical circulatory support with femoro-femoral extracorporeal life support (ECLS), the patient had the mitral valve replaced, and the arterio-venous ECLS was removed for a right ventricular assistance device. After seven weeks, she was discharged and fully recovered.
Keywords
Echocardiography
Doppler
Echocardiography
Transesophageal
Electrocardiography
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Female
Heart-Assist Devices
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
Hemodynamics
Humans
Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction
Middle Aged
Mitral Valve
Mitral Valve Stenosis
Prosthesis Design
Recovery of Function
Rheumatic Heart Disease
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Function
Right