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Orthotopic heart transplantation eleven years after left pneumonectomy
M Goenen1, P Baele, J Lintermans
1Department of Intensive Care, University Hospital Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
The Journal of Heart Transplantation
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
Orthotopic heart transplantation was performed in a 21-year-old medical student 11 years after left pneumonectomy for a rhabdomyosarcoma. The cardiomyopathy was the result of the administration of doxorubicin (Adriamycin). The surgical procedure was largely facilitated as a result of an in-hospital donor and the absence of major adhesions. The early postoperative course was mainly uneventful. The patient is doing well 9 months after operation, without any episode of rejection or infection.