CASE REPORT article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Intensive Care Cardiovascular Medicine
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1677940
This article is part of the Research TopicCase Reports in Intensive Care Cardiovascular Medicine: 2025View all 7 articles
A Case Report: Corheart 6 Biventricular Assist Device Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Provisionally accepted
- Nanjing University Medical School Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Department of Cadiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing, China
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Approximately one-third of patients with end-stage heart failure (ESHF) experience biventricular failure. Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are employed as a salvage therapy for individuals with advanced heart failure. The onset of right ventricular failure complicates the postoperative management of patients receiving LVAD support. Currently, no right ventricular assist device is specifically designed for isolated right heart failure support, necessitating cardiac surgeons worldwide to adopt various improvised methods using LVADs for right ventricular assistance. This report details the first case at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in which a Corheart 6 magnetically levitated LVAD was successfully employed for biventricular assistance in a patient with ESHF secondary to dilated cardiomyopathy.
Keywords: dilated cardiomyopathy, end-stage heart failure, Biventricular assist device, Volume management, case report
Received: 01 Aug 2025; Accepted: 10 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ding, Chen, Xu, Zhang, Pan and Ge. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jun Pan, pj791028@163.com
Min Ge, gemin2000@outlook.com
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