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Heterotopic Heart Transplantation in Mice
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Overcoming Double Jeopardy: Successful Orthotopic Heart Transplant in a Recipient With Bacterial and Fungal
Paopat Munthananuchat1, Bundit Naratreekoon2, Narongrit Kantathut3
1Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Case Reports in Cardiology
|July 25, 2024
Abstract:
Although active infection is generally a contraindication before an orthotopic heart transplant, a 16-year-old man diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy successfully underwent an orthotopic heart transplant despite having active probable invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and bacterial pneumonia in the presence of septic and cardiogenic shock.
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