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Left-to-right shunt reduction with intra-aortic balloon pump in postmyocardial infarction ventricular septal defect
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 05/09/2012
Testuz A et al. – In patients with post–myocardial infarction (MI) ventricular septal defect (VSD), placement of IABP leads to an immediate reduction in left–to–right shunt and as a consequence to an increase in systemic cardiac output, which may allow hemodynamic stabilization of the patient prior to surgical VSD closure.