Terumo bct received medwatch 5099873 with the following incident description: "during therapeutic plasma exchange for heart transplant rejection, patient developed chest pain and went into cardiac arrest, the patient had presented to the hospital with chest pain and had known, progressive, transplant associated coronary artery disease.He had undergone 4 previous therapeutic plasma exchanges in the preceding days without incident.Fda safety report id# (b)(4)" icu team initiated code procedures following the cardiac arrest.The patient was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo) and died 3 weeks later.The disposable set is not available for return because it was discarded by the customer.
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