TY - JOUR
T1 - Aorta-to-left-atrial shunting through a previously performed heterotopic heart transplant
T2 - An unusual complication of orthotopic re-transplantation
AU - Cohn, William
AU - Radovancevic, Branislav
AU - Amir, Offer
AU - Smith, Ronald
AU - Smart, Frank
AU - Frazier, O. H.
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - Heterotopic heart transplantation is rarely performed today, except in cases of recipient-donor size mismatch and when addressing complications associated with recipient pulmonary artery hypertension. As in orthotopic cardiac transplantation, occurrence of allograft vasculopathy occasionally calls for re-transplantation. Although orthotopic re-transplantation without removal of the heterotopic allograft has been described previously, we report the case of a patient who presented with an unusual complication.
AB - Heterotopic heart transplantation is rarely performed today, except in cases of recipient-donor size mismatch and when addressing complications associated with recipient pulmonary artery hypertension. As in orthotopic cardiac transplantation, occurrence of allograft vasculopathy occasionally calls for re-transplantation. Although orthotopic re-transplantation without removal of the heterotopic allograft has been described previously, we report the case of a patient who presented with an unusual complication.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.healun.2005.04.021
DO - 10.1016/j.healun.2005.04.021
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C2 - 16364884
AN - SCOPUS:29144431619
SN - 1053-2498
VL - 24
SP - 2290
EP - 2292
JO - Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
JF - Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
IS - 12
ER -