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Inspirations from a Complicated Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Mohammed El-Souri1, John S Dayco2, Luis Afonso3
1College of Liberal Arts and Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
JACC. Case Reports
|August 1, 2022
Abstract:
It takes only 1 profound experience to change someone's life. We invite you to read about how an experience of struggle led to a motivation in medicine. Through a first-person perspective, the author details the sequence of diagnosis and treatment of his own case of cardiac transplantation secondary to viral cardiomyopathy.
Keywords:
AICD, automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillatorEBV, Epstein-Barr virusLVAD, left ventricular assist devicePET, positron emission tomographyRUQ, right upper quadrantVA-ECMO, venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenationautomatic implantable cardioverter defibrillatorpediatric heart transplantationpost-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder
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