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Combined heart and liver transplantation in a patient with situs ambiguous
Tetsuya Horai1, Jay K Bhama, Paulo A Fontes
1Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Heart, Lung, and Esophageal Surgery Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 25, 2011
Abstract:
We report the case of 21-year-old man with Fontan circulation failure and end-stage liver cirrhosis, along with situs ambiguous. Combined simultaneous heart and liver transplantation was successfully performed with technical modifications, including rotated implantation and bilateral venous reconstruction.
