A totally artificial heart can be successfully used to achieve hemodynamic stabilization and serve as a bridge to transplantation in patients with complex postinfarction ventricular septal rupture unsuitable for surgical repair.
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May support total artificial heart as bridge in select unreparable post-MI VSR; hypothesis-generating from one case, needs prospective validation.
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