Percutaneous left ventricular assist devices like the Tandem Heart can successfully support high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions such as left main stenting in patients with severe comorbidities.
Percutaneous left ventricular assist devices could nowadays offer a valid support to percutaneous coronary interventions even in very high risk patients. This case illustrates a successful distal left main coronary artery V-stenting supported by the Tandem Heart in a patient with severe left ventricular dysfunction, severe aortic stenosis, and refractory myocardial ischemia.
Bonvini et al. (Sat,) studied this question.