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Timing of heart transplantation after a recent pulmonary embolism
Tajinder P Singh1, Thomas F Forbes, Henry L Walters
1Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, USA. tsingh@dmc.org
Abstract:
In patients with heart failure, the complication of pulmonary embolism often delays listing for heart transplantation by several weeks. We report a patient, previously palliated with a Fontan operation for a complex single ventricle, who underwent heart transplantation soon after successful thrombolytic therapy due to a large pulmonary embolus.