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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Heart Transplantation Complicated by COVID-19 Infection
Thomas Martens1, Lineke Hens2, Michel De Pauw2
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Abstract:
The influence of Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) on heart transplantation is considerable. Reports of COVID-19 infection in recently transplanted patients are scarce. We present a 60-year-old male patient with COVID-19 infection, diagnosed 6 days after transplantation. His clinical course revealed 2 phases. Initially, there were mild respiratory symptoms for which he was treated with remdesivir and noninvasive respiratory support. In a second phase with clinical deterioration on postoperative day 22, further respiratory decline led to the administration of convalescent plasma, with satisfactory response and further improvement of his condition.
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