A severe acute myocardial infarction patient with cardiogenic shock was successfully treated with percutaneous coronary intervention, percutaneous cardiopulmonary support (PCPS), and percutaneous left atrium-artery bypass (LAAB). LAAB assisted the patient’s circulation sufficiently, with few complications. The patient recovered from shock after LAAB. High fever and elevation of CPK disappeared after removal of the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Staphylococcus epidermidis was detected in the culture of the IABP tip later. A small left atrium-right atrium shunt remained for ten months after LAAB removal and disappeared naturally. The patient was discharged 7 months after his initial myocardial infarction. He has been well for over one year since discharge without the need for re-hospitalization.

The online case report with brief review entitled Four Days of Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Support and Sixteen Days of Percutaneous Left Atrium-Artery Bypass: A Case Report of Survival of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Cardiogenic Shock and Severe Rhabdomyolysis was incorrectly listed in the Table of Contents of the December 2005 issue of The Journal of Invasive Cardiology (the authors’s names were correct, but the title and abstract were not). We regret this error and have provided the correct information below:

Four Days of Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Support and Sixteen Days of Percutaneous Left Atrium-Artery Bypass: A Case Report of Survival of Acute Myocardial Infarction with Cardiogenic Shock and Severe Rhabdomyolysis

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, MD, Takashi Sueda, MD, Mitsunori Okamoto, MD
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Hospital
Hiroshima, Japan

       ABSTRACT:A severe acute myocardial infarction patient with cardiogenic shock was successfully treated with percutaneous coronary intervention, percutaneous cardiopulmonary support (PCPS), and percutaneous left atrium-artery bypass (LAAB). LAAB assisted the patient’s circulation sufficiently, with few complications. The patient recovered from shock after LAAB. High fever and elevation of CPK disappeared after removal of the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Staphylococcus epidermidis was detected in the culture of the IABP tip later. A small left atrium-right atrium shunt remained for ten months after LAAB removal and disappeared naturally. The patient was discharged 7 months after his initial myocardial infarction. He has been well for over one year since discharge without the need for re-hospitalization.

J INVASIVE CARDIOL 2005;17:E46–E49 (December 2005)