Jarvik 2000 axial flow ventricular assist device in right single ventricle after Fontan operation

• DOI: 10.1007/s10047-019-01124-4
• Publication Date: 2019-08-07T09:02:44Z
• Authors: Yoshihisa Tanoue; Takeo Fujino; Hideki Tatewaki; Akira Shiose
• Keywords: Heart Defects, Congenital; Heart Failure; Reoperation; Adolescent; Heart Ventricles; Fontan Procedure; Prosthesis Design; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Humans; Female; Heart-Assist Devices; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

We present a case of successful ventricular assist device support in a 13-year-old female diagnosed with right single ventricle, asplenia, dextrocardia, who had undergone a Fontan operation at 4 years old in an associated children hospital. She underwent placement of Jarvik 2000 axial flow ventricular assist device to the morphologic right ventricle which worked as systemic ventricle. The postoperative course was not eventful. She was waiting for heart transplantation attending high school 3 years after implantation.