© The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com The diagnosis of left ventricular assist device thrombosis

line) infection, arrhythmias and pump thrombosis [4]. The incidence of pump thrombosis was reported in a range of 1.4–4 % in 2010 [5]. We report a case of early postoperative pump thrombosis. A 46-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy and end-stage heart failure, despite optimal medical and implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy, was accepted on the Eurotransplant waiting list for heart transplant on May 2013. In July 2013, due to clinical deterioration, he received—in a non-emergency setting—an LVAD type HeartMate II (Thoratec Corp. Pleasanton CA, USA) as a bridge to transplantation [Fig. 1, label 1]. Postoperative recovery was without complications, and the patient was discharged to a cardiac rehabilitation centre 19 days after insertion of the device. In all, 27 days after implantation