Use of a donor heart that had undergone previous cardiac surgery for ASD closure
Received 19 February 2001; accepted 31 May 2001.
Abstract
We report the use of a heart from a 19-year-old female donor who had undergone open heart surgery for closure of an atrial septal defect at the age of 12. The explantation procedure was modified to prevent hemodynamic instability. The recipient, a 59-year-old male with increased pulmonary vascular resistance had an uneventful recovery after transplantation.
aMichael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation and Assist Devices, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
bDepartment of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Reprint requests: Matthias Loebe, MD, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation and Assist Devices, Baylor College of Medicine, 6550 Fannin #1641, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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