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Cardiac explantation and autotransplantation
S Wagner1, B Hutchisson, M G Baird
1Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA.
AORN Journal
|August 3, 1999
Abstract:
Cardiac explantation and autotransplantation is a procedure by which the heart is removed from the chest and replaced. Explantation of the heart for tumor removal has been documented six times in the literature; however, with this aggressive approach, the median patient survival rate is only eight months. This article presents a case study in which this procedure was used to treat a patient with malignant fibrous histiocytoma.