SHERYL S ANG, SNEHA H RAO, NİCOLE A RİZKALLA, STEPHANİE CHA, YUNPENG YANG, MATTHEWS CHACKO, AHMET O GURAKAR, SHANE E OTTMANN, ALİAKSEİ PUSTAVOİTAU
Experimental and Clinical Transplantation - 2022;20(8):782-785
We describe a complex case of liver transplant in a 70-year-old male patient with no known history of coronary artery disease, normal preoperative left ventricular function, and negative preoperative cardiac workup who developed progressive intra - operative left ventricular myocardial dysfunction secondary to class I acute myocardial infarction, ultimately requiring intraoperative intra-aortic balloon pump insertion to optimize myocardial perfusion. Management of myocardial ischemia was complicated by bleeding in the setting of coagulopathy necessitating correction. Once hemostasis was achieved, the patient immediately underwent coronary angiography and bare metal stent placement in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery for an acute plaque rupture.
