Patient experienced unexplained high power and low flow on pump without any clear physiological explanation, so therefore was listed for heart transplant.Pump was implanted at osh in 2018.A 49 years old male with dilated cmy s/p lvad in 2018, dli with mssa on chronic antibiotic therapy.Diabetes who is now transferred from rgb with concern initially for pump thrombosis which was ruled out was later discharged and had a low flow on pump without any clear physiological explanation which also caused hypotension and aki episode.Given no clear explanation of these events so therefore decision was made to list for heart transplantation as unos status 2 for device malfunction.
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