Cavobipulmonary shunt for the management of isolated postinfarction right ventricular failure

Abstract

ight ventricular (RV) infarction, which is now recognized to occur in approximately 50% of all inferior myocardial infarctions (MIs), 1 has a significant early mortality in patients with RV dysfunction. 2,3 In this article we report the midterm results of 3 patients who had isolated RV failure after acute inferior MI and in whom a cavobipulmonary shunt was carried out to reestablish an adequate left ventricular (LV) filling and decrease the RV volume overload in the presence of significant tricuspid regurgitation.